(Characters of the Two Sessions) "Dream Builder" Kurban Niaz: Popularizing the national common language makes Xinjiang rural students fly higher

　　China News Agency, Urumqi, March 2nd: "Dream Builder" Kurban Niaz: Popularizing the national common language makes Xinjiang rural students fly higher

　　Author Gou Jipeng

　　"Among our twelve graduates, more than 600 students were admitted to the junior high school classes in Xinjiang with excellent results, and more than 300 students were admitted to the Xinjiang high school classes in various provinces and cities." Representative of the National People's Congress, Ushi, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Kurban Niaz, the principal of the National Common Language Primary School in Qianjin Town, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently that the popularization of the national common language has given wings to the students in his hometown, allowing them to fly higher and farther.

　　Nineteen years ago, Kurban Niaz invested more than 600,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) to establish the first private national primary school in Xinjiang.

"I want to change the face of my hometown through education. By popularizing the national common language, more children can go out from the countryside, learn more knowledge, change their destiny through knowledge, and play a role in all parts of the country." Ban Niazi said.

　　At the beginning of the school, Kurban Niazi took two teachers from house to house to recruit students.

"I went to more than 400 households to recruit only 87 students, and half of them left on the first day of the class." Kurban Niyaz said that many local parents now want to send their children to school here, and the school every year The enrollment program is less than 120, but more than 2,000 students are enrolled.

　　Today, the National Common Language Primary School in Qianjin Town, Wushi County has complete hardware and software facilities.

While the students are learning the national common language and writing, the school also arranges special classes to learn Uyghur every week in accordance with the requirements of the Xinjiang Education Department.

　　For Kurban Niyaz, language is a bridge and a bond.

He said: "The foundation of strengthening national unity lies in language communication and cultural identity. Only when the language is communicated can our culture, mind and soul be communicated." , he also built a Chinese cultural compound in his hometown to promote the national common language and Chinese excellent traditional culture into the villages.

　　"In the Chinese Culture Compound, we have designed a Sinology classroom to allow children and their parents to have zero-distance contact with tea culture, health preservation culture, etiquette culture, etc., which not only enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers, but also improves their national common language. level." Kurban Niyaz said that practice has proved that popularizing the national common language is a very scientific development path.

　　On February 4 this year, Kurban Niyaz completed the torch relay mission as the No. 20 torchbearer at the Summer Palace site of the Beijing Winter Olympics Torch Relay.

"I am deeply honored and proud to be a torchbearer of the Beijing Winter Olympics!" Kurban Niyaz said. After returning to school, he immediately shared his joy with students and teachers.

　　"Beijing Winter Olympics is a sports event, but also a grand event full of Chinese wisdom. I want to pass on the spirit of the Winter Olympics like the torch of the Winter Olympics." Kurban Niyaz said: " I tell the children how I feel about being a torchbearer, let them touch the torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics, broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge."

　　Kurban Niazi said proudly that many students now go to Tsinghua University, Nanjing University and other well-known universities in China after graduating from the school they founded.

"The popularization of the national common language has opened a door for children to see the world, let them fly higher and farther, and use China's land of more than 9.6 million square kilometers as a stage to play their role in all parts of the country." (End )