At a recent symposium on promoting the coordinated development of basic education in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Ministry of Education called for accelerating the sharing of primary and secondary education resources between the three locations.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the symposium, which was held on May 29 in the Xiong'an New Area of Hebei, called on Beijing and Tianjin to help schools in Hebei by setting up school branches or education groups in the province.
It also stressed the need for Beijing and Tianjin to help train more teachers for Hebei and improve their abilities, in addition to contributing their own teachers.
To promote the balanced development of basic education in the region, a new alliance formed of primary and secondary schools has been founded.
Initiated by the Shijiazhuang Foreign Language Education Group, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Basic Education Alliance, which comprises 12 primary and secondary schools in the region, seeks in-depth cooperation and exchange between members to share educational resources.
Of the 12 member schools, four are from Beijing, four are from Tianjin and four are from Hebei. They include the High School Affiliated with Beijing Normal University, Tianjin Yaohua High School and the Shijiazhuang Foreign Language Education Group, which is based in Shijiazhuang and manages four schools ranging from kindergarten to senior high school.