Classroom at Jintang Elementary School. The students are in class. The teacher led the students to read together. The above pictures are all taken by Zhou Qiuyan (People's Vision). The opinions on building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system issued by the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council are proposed to establish necessary small-scale rural schools. In recent years, the "withdrawal and merging of schools" has optimized the school layout and concentrated the educational resources. However, there are still some small-scale rural schools that play an important role in facilitating the enrollment of students in remote areas and reducing the economic burden on families. Establishing necessary small-scale rural schools is of great significance for effectively improving the quality of rural education, promoting high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, and building an education powerhouse. ——At 6:50 am, the editor woke up Chen Jialin, who had just finished first grade in elementary school, with the chirping of birds. He got up, dressed, washed, ate a bowl of steaming Rice noodles, and went to school with his fourth grade brother Chen Zijian. The flat asphalt road winds along the mountainside, and the two brothers walk happily with occasional companions joining along the way. In no time, the group of elementary school students arrived at Jintang Elementary School located at the village entrance, and the teachers were welcoming them at the school gate. Jintang Elementary School is a village primary school located in Yunji Village, Lianhua Town, Xiangjiang New Area, Hunan Province. The school has 6 grades, one class per grade, with a total of 48 students and 9 teachers, and is a small-scale rural school. Establishing necessary small-scale rural schools is an important part of the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education. In recent years, Jintang Primary School has been continuously exploring ways to enhance its education and teaching level, such as building a strong teaching team, leveraging the advantages of small class teaching, revitalizing social resources, and optimizing educational conditions, achieving a transition from "small yet weak" to "excellent yet beautiful". Is the school "withdrawn" or "retained"? "Having an older brother leading the way and children from the village accompanying me on the way, I feel very at ease," said Zhong Tianhua, the mother of Chen Jialin and Chen Zijian, after considering multiple options and listening to the voices of the villagers. Ten years ago, after Zhong Tian's health improved, he stopped working outside and stayed at home to take care of the elderly and children. "If there were no village schools, we could only send our children to the town for primary school. The one-way road to the town is only eight or nine kilometers, and it is time-consuming and laborious to pick them up and drop them off every day." Zhong Tianhua said that if we were to go to school in the town, the most feasible way is to rent a house to accompany us, but the annual rent plus the cost of food and clothing will increase the family's financial burden; In addition, there are elderly people in the family who need to be taken care of, so if you care about one end, you can't care about the other. The situation of Zhong Tianhua's family is not an exception. Yunji Village borders Ningxiang City and Yuhu District of Xiangtan City in Changsha City, and is relatively far from the urban area of Changsha. There are over 4000 people from 1427 households in the village. Some villagers with better economic conditions have purchased houses and settled down in the urban area, but there are still some villagers who live here and still crave to receive high-quality education at their doorstep. Jintang Primary School was founded in the 1970s, and at its peak, the school had three or four students