Introduction to Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School, a boarding school, was established in July 2014. It has received strong support from the local government and cooperates with Xiao Kongming Group. It offers a 12 year full-time education, including primary, junior high and senior high school.

Xiao Kongming Group

Xiao Kongming Group was founded in Xiamen City of Fujian province in China in 2000. It is a "no region, no industry" enterprise group approved by the former State Administration for Industry and Commerce, with Xiao Kongming Group Co., Ltd. as its core. It owns 16 holding companies, including Shanzhiben Group Co., Ltd. (approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation), Jingshihong International Restaurant Co., Ltd. (approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation), Ningxia Xiao kongming Film and Television Co., Ltd., and Fujian Minglv Energy saving Technology Co., Ltd.

The story of the Xiao Kongming brand

Kongming is a symbol of wisdom and has been a subject of people's aspiration for excellence for thousands of years. By treating "Kongming" in a childlike way, children can establish their personality coordinates based on the image of little (Xiao) Kongming, cultivate a wise temperament from an early age, and have good cultivation and character. At the same time, parents' admiration for historical figures is transformed into a common learning demand for two generations.

Xiao kongming Group focuses on education and offers full-time education in kindergartens, compulsory education, regular high schools, and universities in countries and regions such as Fujian, Ningxia, and Australia. With film and animation as the main focus, Xiao Kongming Group aims to create a "Xiao Kongming" super IP depending on nurturing education, quality education, and excellent traditional culture.

The School’s Location

Located in the Hengcheng Tourism Belt of Yinchuan Binhe New Area of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China, at the foot of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and on the bank of the Yellow River, Yinchuan Xiao Kongmimg school has a beautiful and peaceful environment, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, making it suitable for students learning and teaching research.

The School’s Infrastructure

Covering an area of 200 acres, Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School has quite perfect infrastructure. It has an administrative building, an experimental building, two 4-storey teaching buildings, a comprehensive building, a dormitory building, a bright and airy two-storey cafeteria, a library, a 400-meter playground with spectator stands, a spacious basketball court and other standardized hardware facilities and supporting domestic advanced teaching software.

The Student Enrollment

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School can accommodate 3,600 students. The primary school and junior high school enroll students nationwide and the senior high school enrolls students across the whole Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The School Staff

 Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School currently has 167 faculty and staff members, among whom 91 are full-time teachers, with an average age of 45 years old. The teachers have qualified academic qualifications and professional titles. Since its establishment, the school has continued to strengthen the construction of the teaching staff. Teachers have participated in teaching competitions organized by education authorities at all levels and won more than 100 awards. More prominently, the school has brought in a number of elite experts and teams of foreign teachers from countries and regions such as Australia, Europe, America, and Taiwan.

The School’s Characteristics

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School’s educational characteristics are “ordinary+distinctive” and “qualified+specialized”. “Ordinary+distinctive” refers to teaching based on the educational requirements of ordinary high schools, combined with the school's distinctive educational practices; “qualified+specialized” means that every student must reach the academic level of ordinary high schools, and at the same time develops some personal special skills, to increase their chances of being admitted to universities. 

The School’s Courses

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School strictly implements the national curriculum plan and standards. While fully implementing the national curriculum, in order to meet the personalized development of students, it also offers various school-based courses such as English speaking, physical education, art education, labor practice and traditional culture. The school-based curriculum is consistent with the national curriculum goals, interdependent and complementary, and has built a school curriculum system with Eastern characteristics. Special courses such as oral English, Taijiquan, basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, electronic piano, dance, chorus, broadcasting, creative art, calligraphy, tie dye and educational mathematics are offered.

The School’s Original Teaching Model

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School adopts a small class system and a mentorship system, using an advanced “bowl style classroom” teaching model with “one bowl of water is balanced” as the core. The unique "bowl style classroom" teaching mode focuses on each student and guides their individual development, reforming many drawbacks of traditional exam-oriented education, stimulating students’ interest in learning and allowing them to discover the joy of exploration through problem-solving.

The School’s Educational Philosophy

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School adheres to the school motto of “benevolence and kindness are everlasting” and the core values of “returning education to its essence” and “making children fall in love with learning”. The school adheres to the principle of moral education as the first priority, and combines intellectual education, aesthetic education, physical education, and labor education. The primary goal is to cultivate students' good habits, laying the foundation for their growth. We do not give up on even one student, and aim to “give every student a sense of dignity and value”, stimulate their potential, and enable them to learn and succeed on their own. The school is making efforts to cultivate outstanding Xiao Kongming students who are confident, patriotic, have an international perspective, have innovative abilities and a sense of social responsibility, and have comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor skills.

Ningxia Xiao Kongming Mental Health Research Institute

Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School is the world's first basic education school with a license for a mental health research institute. Ningxia Xiao Kongming Mental Health Research Institute is led by Professor Tian Jizhong, an ethnic education expert from the Ministry of Education and a talented individual from Ningxia.

The institute has dozens of full-time and part-time senior psychological counselors, and its mental health network service platform provides 24-hour expert consultation and AI therapy with warm companionship. It is equipped with four certified full-time psychological health teachers to teach mental health courses at Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School.

Every afternoon, the institute provides psychological counseling services and tracks and guides students from special families and emotionally unstable students throughout the process, providing psychological support. In the past year, the institute has provided counseling services to nearly 100 people and cured more than 10 students with serious psychological problems, receiving praise from teachers, students, parents and society.

The School’s Remarkable Achievements

   Since the establishment of Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School in 2014, it has achieved remarkable achievements in teaching and teaching research. A large number of Xiao Kongming high school graduates have been admitted to universities. Its extraordinary quality of education has been highly recognized by parents and widely concerned by society. Many media outlets such as People's Daily Online, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV have conducted special reports, triggering a wave of education reform. Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School has been hailed as the “engine of education reform”.

Its annual comprehensive performance ranks among the top. In 2020 and 2021, it was awarded the second prize for educational quality by the Yinchuan Municipal Committee and Government of the Communist Party of China.

And many outstanding talents from Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School have emerged. In December 2022, a 14-year-old student in the third year of junior high school of Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School wrote and directed a film “Short.See”, which focused on the increasingly serious mental health problems of young people with a unique perspective. The film was shortlisted in the 51st ICVM Crown Award Film Festival in the United States, won the Independent Short Film Award and Best Young Film Producer in the United States and many other international film festival awards, and was recorded in the world's most authoritative film database IMDB. Some authoritative media outlets have conducted special reports on it.

At present, the Guinness World Record holder for the youngest film producer in the world is the 21-year-old Hollywood director brothers in 1993, and the third year junior high school student at Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School broke this world record at the age of 14 in 2022. The student has received pure Xiao Kongming education since kindergarten and is currently in the second year of senior high school at Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School.

In 2023, the original scientific research achievement of Yinchuan Xiao Kongming School, "MingLv (MingLv) energy-saving heating machine," has obtained national copyright certificates and applied for invention patents in multiple countries. Its heating effect, comfort, energy conservation and emission reduction are all ahead of other heating modes, saving more than 60% of construction and operation costs compared to centralized heating. It is a revolutionary heating patent technology that can save hundreds of billions of heating costs for the country every year.

Minglv energy-saving heating machines have started mass production, which will be a heating revolution!