Li Xiong —— Focus on innovation to deepen the "integration of sports and education"

As a veteran party member with 31 years of party experience, Li Xiong has been fighting on the front of physical education for 37 years since he taught. Since being transferred to the principal of Lanzhou Sports School in 2010, he has made every effort to promote the steady development and upgrading of all aspects of the school, pay attention to innovation and dare to practice in deepening the "integration of sports and education" and enriching the concept of running a school in sports schools, and he put forward the concept of "243" connotation of running a school, injecting vitality into the development of the school with the concept of "integration of sports and education, flying together with wings", and building a weak sports school with poor student quality, backward school running conditions and difficult enrollment into a first-class sports school in the northwest, a national leader, repeated achievements, and good results. An advanced unit that has won many national honors.

"Adhere to the front line of physical education, we must have the determination to love the cause, but also have the insistence of indifferent fame and fortune." Li Xiong said. Since he was transferred to the school, he has always demanded "in school, on the job, in the state" as a work criterion. He often told coaches and teachers: "The cause we are engaged in needs to be guarded with love and responsibility. He led by example, checking the training at least 5 days a week and learning more about the training status of the team. On the training ground, every time he ran, he could accurately call out his name, say his age and project. At six o'clock in the morning, he accompanied the children to run exercises, at ten o'clock in the evening he watched them fall asleep, so day after day, there were almost no holidays, every Chinese New Year's Eve night, he and the coach accompanied the team members to spend in the training hall, he often said" I am a sports school person, the sports school is my home." "Loving the post and dedication, loving the school like home, and loving the students like a son are the educational criteria that Li Xiong pursues, and it is also his consistent adherence to teaching for more than thirty years."

As a principal and party member, he often encourages everyone to look to the future with the attitude of a pioneer, to dive deeply, to have a sense of gratitude, to guard a hope, and to firmly believe that as long as you work hard, everything is possible.

Lanzhou Daily all-media reporter Kong Desheng text/photo