Jiangshan High School

Zhejiang Jiangshan High School (ZJHS,[1] simplified Chinese: 浙江省江山中学; traditional Chinese: 浙江省江山中學; pinyin: Zhèjiāng Shěng Jiāngshān Zhōngxué, JSZX, "Zhejiang Provincial Jiangshan Middle School") is a secondary school located in Jiangshan, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Its origins are in a government-operated academy of classical learning established in the year 1737, during the second year of the rule of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.[2] The current Jiangshan High School was founded in 1938. The Jiangshan Foreign Language School is affiliated with Jiangshan High School.[1]

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport. Three Jiangshan students died in the crash.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Welcome to Jiangshan High School." (Archive) Jiangshan High School. Retrieved on July 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ "学校简介." (Archive) Jiangshan High School. Retrieved on July 7, 2013. "浙江省江山中学源于1737年（清乾隆2年）创建的官办文溪书院，[...]"
  3. ↑ "Asiana crash deaths ID'd as 2 Chinese teens." USA Today. July 7, 2013. Retrieved on July 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Biographies of 3 Chinese SF airliner crash victims." Associated Press. July 15, 2013. Retrieved on July 19, 2013.

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Coordinates: 28°45′42″N 118°38′02″E / 28.761701°N 118.633981°E / 28.761701; 118.633981


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