Huang Huachun is an deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) and vice-principal of Chongzuo High School, in Chongzuo, a city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on the border of China and Vietnam. Huang has been an educator for more than 20 years. She has focused her career on ensuring children in remote areas enjoy a high-quality education, and that they have access to balanced educational resources. 

"With the support of the government, we have made great progress in education in border areas. Although a gap still exists between urban and rural education, more teachers, especially young ones, have injected vitality into education in the border areas," Huang said. 

"Moreover, various after-class activities, involving calligraphy, folk art and so on, have been established on campuses, providing students with more opportunities to relax and be creative," Huang added. As for calligraphy, she suggested calligraphy classes be included in the compulsory curriculum of primary and middle schools. 

Huang expressed concern that the development of urban and rural school education is not balanced enough, especially in border areas. She proposed the allocation of educational resources be optimized, based on population distribution in border areas, to ensure students are enrolled near their homes. She also proposed deepening educational reform, improving the level of education and teaching in rural schools, and strengthening training for teachers in rural border areas. 

Huang also called for more efforts to strengthen digital education, such as establishing a digital teaching resource database and promoting the development of distance education and online learning platforms.

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(Source: Women of China)