Leadership Inspects Its Affiliated (Shenzhen) Senior High School of The Asia Pacific School of Business

Encouraging Deepening of Characteristic Education to Nurture New-Generation Talents

December 18, 2025, Shenzhen

Under the clear and sunny sky with warm breezes, Dr. Yiyan Jianyin, Rotating Chairman of the School Board of The Asia Pacific School of Business, led a delegation including Ms. Jin Meihua, Supervisor of the School, and Ms. Lin Wanli, Secretary-General of the School Board, to pay a special inspection and guidance visit to The Asia Pacific School of Business Affiliated (Shenzhen) Senior High School, carrying deep concern and earnest expectations for basic education. At the school gate, Principal Zhang Tao, Director of School Affairs Liu Haiyan, and Executive Vice Principal Chen Deming, along with other administrative staff and student representatives, lined up to welcome the delegation. The bright red school flag fluttered in the wind, and the students' clear greetings injected vigorous vitality into the campus on this winter day. During the accompanying tour, Principal Zhang Tao gave a comprehensive and detailed work report to the inspection team on the school's running orientation, development plan, curriculum construction and other core issues.

The establishment of The Asia Pacific School of Business Affiliated (Shenzhen) Senior High School marks a key strategic move for The Asia Pacific School of Business in its layout in the field of basic education. The school fully completed the whole-equity acquisition of the former Shenzhen Siyuan Senior High School in early December 2025. After renaming and integration, it officially joined the ranks of high-quality private senior high schools with distinctive features in Shenzhen. Its school-running qualification has passed the strict review and approval of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Education, laying a solid institutional foundation for standardized school operation and high-quality development.

Currently, the school maintains a stable and high-quality scale, with 2,500 students enrolled. A team of 110 full-time teachers has been built, characterized by "noble moral integrity, exquisite professional skills and reasonable structure". Among them, 2 special-grade teachers are academic leaders who have been deeply engaged in front-line teaching for more than 30 years, achieving remarkable results and enjoying high reputation in the fields of Chinese and mathematics. The 24 senior teachers have an average teaching experience of over 15 years, combining rich teaching experience with cutting-edge teaching concepts. Through mechanisms such as "mentorship pairing" and "teaching and research co-construction", key teachers and young teachers have formed a sound development echelon.

Located in the core area of educational resources in Shenzhen, the school covers an area of more than 50,000 square meters, with lush greenery and elegant scenery. Within its construction area of over 72,000 square meters, the teaching area, sports area and living area are clearly divided. Modern teaching facilities and humanistic landscapes complement each other, creating a growth environment for students that combines academic atmosphere and life warmth.

In the exploration of characteristic school-running, the school takes "diversified development and personalized growth" as its core philosophy, and has built a highly competitive curriculum system, which has become its core advantage distinguishing it from traditional senior high schools. Aiming at the different interests, talents and development plans of students, the school has accurately set up various characteristic classes:

The Art Class covers three professional directions: fine arts, music and dance, equipped with exclusive venues such as professional art studios, standardized piano rooms and dance rehearsal halls. It regularly invites professors from art colleges to give special lectures and practical guidance.

In addition to offering mainstream courses in English, Japanese and Korean, the Multilingual Foreign Language Class innovatively adopts the "immersive teaching" model, and effectively improves students' language application ability through activities such as foreign language drama performances, overseas cultural salons and cross-border online exchanges.

The Science and Technology Class focuses on cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, programming and development, and robot research and development. It has established practical bases with many local technology enterprises in Shenzhen, allowing students to have close access to scientific research processes and participate in project practice.

Notably, the school integrates cultural inheritance into the whole process of education, and systematically incorporates courses on excellent traditional Chinese culture and intangible cultural heritage into its school-based curriculum system. It not only offers basic courses such as calligraphy, paper-cutting and traditional opera, but also specially invites inheritors of intangible cultural heritage to carry out hands-on teaching on campus, enabling students to appreciate the charm of traditional culture and cultivate national cultural confidence through the atmosphere of calligraphy and ink as well as the inheritance of craftsmanship.

Relying on the profound accumulation and global cooperation network of The Asia Pacific School of Business in the field of international education, the school has successfully built an exclusive channel for cultivating international talents - specifically setting up the IB Program Special Class, which introduces the complete curriculum system certified by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), covering six core fields including language and literature, mathematics, science, and humanities and society.

To ensure teaching quality, the school has established a professional teaching team composed of teachers with master's degrees or above from overseas prestigious universities and holding official IB teaching qualification certificates. Adopting the small-class teaching model, it provides students with integrated services of "customized learning guidance + full-process admission planning", directly connecting with more than 100 cooperative prestigious overseas universities, and helping students realize their vision of "receiving high-quality international education at their doorstep".

In terms of hardware facility construction, the school adheres to the concept of "student-oriented" and has invested heavily in creating a high-quality teaching environment: the modern library has a collection of more than 150,000 books, including Chinese and foreign classics, academic monographs and electronic resource databases, with an intelligent borrowing system and quiet reading spaces providing sufficient support for students' independent learning; the standardized student canteen strictly implements the "transparent kitchen" standard for food safety, providing nutritionally balanced three meals and characteristic dishes; the student activity area is built with environmentally friendly and safe materials, divided into sports and leisure functional areas to meet the needs of after-school activities; the electronic teaching classrooms are equipped with advanced equipment such as 4K high-definition projectors and interactive whiteboards; the science laboratories and chemistry laboratories are equipped with instruments in accordance with provincial demonstration standards, which can fully meet the needs of various teaching experiments and scientific research practices, providing a solid guarantee for high-quality teaching.

During the inspection, Dr. Yiyan Jianyin and his delegation walked calmly, leaving their footprints in various functional areas of the campus. They made detailed inquiries and in-depth investigations on every aspect, from the configuration and maintenance of teaching facilities to the service efficiency of activity venues, from the implementation details of classroom teaching to the implementation of logistics support, and often stopped to communicate with teachers and students.

In the modern library, Dr. Yiyan Jianyin carefully read the characteristic collection catalog and borrowing registration book, and turned to ask the librarian: "What is the borrowing demand of students for books on traditional culture?" Upon learning that the borrowing rate of relevant books has always been at the forefront, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "We should continue to enrich such collections and make the library a 'spiritual granary' for students to cultivate their cultural literacy."

In the science laboratory, Ms. Jin Meihua bent down to check the students' experimental records and had a cordial conversation with several boys who were adjusting robots. When she heard the students introduce that "this is an intelligent sorting device designed by us for the science and technology innovation competition", she patted the students on the shoulder with a smile and encouraged them: "Scientific research exploration requires this kind of dedication. Keep up the good work!"

In the art classroom, Ms. Lin Wanli stopped to appreciate the students' sketch works displayed on the wall, and also watched a girl's piano performance with great interest. After the performance, she took the initiative to applaud and praise: "The melody is smooth and the emotion is full. You have great talent."

Subsequently, the inspection team focused on visiting a demonstration class taught by a special-grade teacher in the senior grade two. This class was taught by Teacher Li, a special-grade Chinese teacher, focusing on the classic fragment "Daiyu Burying Flowers" from "A Dream of Red Mansions". With "the metaphor of flowers and the fate of characters as well as the rise and fall of the dynasty" as the starting point, Teacher Li guided the students to conduct discussions based on the details of the text.

In the class, when a student put forward the insight into "the relationship between Daiyu's aloofness and the social environment of her time", Dr. Yiyan Jianyin immediately marked it with a red pen in his notebook, with approval in his eyes. The whole class was lively and orderly, with students actively raising their hands to speak, and sparks of thinking constantly colliding in the interaction.

When the after-class bell rang, the leaders stood up and applauded first. Dr. Yiyan Jianyin stepped forward to shake hands with Teacher Li and said: "You have vividly interpreted the classic through the method of 'revealing the whole through the part'. This teaching method that is close to students' cognition is worth promoting." He also specifically turned to the students who gathered around and asked gently: "Can you understand the content of this class? What reading confusions do you usually have about classics like 'A Dream of Red Mansions'?" The students responded enthusiastically, and the on-site interaction was full of warmth, fully demonstrating the cordial connection between the leaders and the teachers and students.

After the inspection, the school board leaders held a meeting with all the teaching and administrative staff in the school auditorium. The venue was packed with people, and the atmosphere was solemn and warm.

At the meeting, Dr. Yiyan Jianyin first delivered a speech full of expectations. On behalf of the school board, he highly praised the hard work of all teaching and administrative staff in school preparation, resource integration, teaching management and other work since the school's acquisition and renaming, as well as the phased achievements made.

He emphasized that as a key link connecting basic education and higher education in the education ecosystem of The Asia Pacific School of Business, the affiliated senior high school shoulders the important mission of nurturing outstanding talents for the society. It must always adhere to the fundamental task of "fostering virtue through education" and firmly grasp the development direction of "establishing the school with characteristics, strengthening the school with quality, and prospering the school with internationalization".

"We should not only consolidate the foundation of cultural courses such as Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages to lay a solid foundation for students' long-term development, but also refine and optimize characteristic programs such as art, science and technology and international courses to build a differentiated development advantage," Dr. Jian specially pointed out that it is necessary to promote the in-depth integration of traditional Chinese culture education and international courses, so that students can not only be rooted in the soil of national culture, but also have a global vision, and grow into compound talents with both national feelings and international literacy.

Finally, he encouraged all teaching and administrative staff to engage in education with the sense of responsibility of "devoting oneself to education and contributing to the prosperity of the country", pay attention to the growth needs of each student, and help them realize their value enhancement on the road of life.

In her subsequent speech, Ms. Jin Meihua, Supervisor of the School, put forward three clear requirements for the school's follow-up development, which are both guiding and operational.

First, deepen the construction of the teaching staff - on the one hand, improve the standards for talent introduction to attract more outstanding talents in the education field; on the other hand, improve the internal incentive mechanism, and build a platform for teachers' professional growth through special teaching and research, overseas training, subject research and other channels to stimulate the vitality of teaching innovation.

Second, refine curriculum management - establish a quality evaluation system for characteristic courses, regularly optimize the curriculum setting through teacher-student surveys and teaching supervision, continuously improve the teaching quality of characteristic courses, and build a school-running brand with high recognition and good reputation.

Third, strengthen the campus security and guarantee line - comprehensively investigate potential safety hazards in campus facilities, food, fire protection, etc., and at the same time optimize logistics services, accurately meet the students' needs for accommodation and catering as well as mental health services, create a safe, comfortable and warm campus environment, and effectively improve the satisfaction of teachers and students and social recognition.

Ms. Jin's speech was well-organized and specific in requirements, pointing out the practical path for the school's work in the next stage.

In response to the earnest expectations and clear requirements of the school board leaders, Principal Zhang Tao made a statement on behalf of all teaching and administrative staff. He said that this inspection and guidance is not only a full affirmation of the school's previous work, but also a strong encouragement for the school's future development.

All teaching and administrative staff will thoroughly study and understand the strategic layout of the school board and the spirit of the leaders' speeches, take this inspection as a new starting point, comprehensively sort out the advantages and deficiencies in the work, formulate a detailed improvement plan, and make every effort to make breakthroughs in key areas such as characteristic school-running, teaching staff construction, teaching quality and campus management.

"We will convert the trust and expectations of the school board into practical motivation, and with a more pragmatic work style and more innovative development measures, strive to build the school into a benchmark for characteristic education in Shenzhen and even Guangdong Province, and contribute to the high-quality development of basic education," said Executive Vice Principal Chen Deming. His speech was sonorous and powerful, and prolonged applause broke out on the scene, fully demonstrating the confidence and determination of all teaching and administrative staff.

Video of leaders visiting the campus