“Great progress and achievements on education have been made in Xinjiang,” Rahman said, adding she is one of the many people in Xinjiang to benefit from the country’s fair education policies.
Rahman has seven younger brothers and sisters, and her father passed away when she was 15. Life had been difficult for her family. With the help of the local government, Rahman and her seven siblings completed their nine-year compulsory education. She and her three sisters graduated from colleges and now work as teachers.
“It is the fair education policies that created a happy life for us,” said Rahman.
Rahman has been working with two classes of Xinjiang students in a senior middle school in Changqing district of Jinan, Shandong province since 2020.
“Children here have free accommodation and meals. In addition, they have subsidies for medical care and a student grant of 50 yuan ($7.50) every month,” said Rahman.
Almost all of these children are able to be admitted by colleges and most of them return to Xinjiang after graduation, becoming an important strength in the development of Xinjiang, she said.
Rahman is now taking care of 65 girl students from Xinjiang. For these students, she is not only a teacher but a relative.
“The first thing that I need to do with the students is to change their attitudes on studying, as well as their parents’ attitudes on education to let them understand that only knowledge can upgrade their lives,” said Rahman.
“To care for the students is not to educate them with empty talk but with every detail and specific event in our daily life,” she said.
What kind of people we should cultivate, how and for whom — these are the fundamental issues that education must address, Rahman quoted from the report.
【小题1】What is Rahman’s job?| A．a school teacher | B．a college student |
| C．a young teenager | D．A government worker |
| A．普通的 | B．晴朗的 | C．公平的 | D．温和的 |
| A．All of them can go to colleges. |
| B．They can have a student grant of $7.0 every month. |
| C．they don’t have subsidies for medical care. |
| D．They can have free accommodation and meals. |
| A．Issues of education in Xinjiang | B．Importance of education promoted in Xinjiang |
| C．Students who are studying in Xinjiang | D．Teachers who are working in Shandong Province |
