14 Facts About Zhang Guimei

Zhang Guimei devoted her life to improving female education in China.

Zhang Guimei is the director of Huaping Children's Home, the orphanage in Huaping County.

Zhang Guimei is known for founding the Huaping High School for Girls, a free public high school have trained 1,804 poor girls to universities and rewrote their fate.

Zhang Guimei is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Zhang Guimei is a delegate to the 17th, 18th, 19th, and the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Zhang Guimei is Secretary of the Party Branch and Principal of the Huaping Girls' Senior High School in Lijiang, South Province, and Director of the Children's Welfare Center in Huaping County.

Zhang Guimei was born into a family of ethnic Manchu minority group in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, on 15 June 1957, while her ancestral home is in Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning.

Zhang Guimei took the college entrance examination of China, Gao Kao, four times for multiple reasons, including financial issues, loss of important legal documents, and performance stress.

In October 1974, the 17-year-old Zhang Guimei followed her sister to participate in the "Third Front" to Zhongdian County in southwest China's Yunnan.

Later, Zhang was admitted to Lijiang Institute of Education.

Zhang Guimei moved to the Forestry Children's School in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture with her husband, and her husband was made the principal.

When Zhang Guimei taught in Huaping County, she came across "many girls that just disappeared before they finishing their studies".

Zhang Guimei Jiamei provided these girls the opportunities to achieve their dreams and change their social status.

Zhang Guimei has a tight schedule every day, getting up at 5 am and going to bed at 12:30 am.