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.

Zhejiang Jiangshan High School

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 Airlines 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]

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  1. ^ a b "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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