en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 10, 2026, the main structure of the No. 1 Student Dormitory Building project at Rucheng County No. 1 Middle School in Hunan Province, funded by China Railway Group Limited (CREC) and constructed by China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CR5G), topped out. The project has a total floor area of 6,018.52 square meters, with the main structure adopting a five-story reinforced concrete frame. Upon completion, it will add 120 student dormitory rooms, accommodating over 700 students.
This project is a key donation-funded initiative under CREC's targeted assistance program for Rucheng County, Hunan Province, in 2026. Rucheng No. 1 Middle School is the largest public full-time secondary school in the county. Its new campus has a total floor area of approximately 78,000 square meters, with a capacity of 60 classes and 3,200 student places. The new campus includes two teaching buildings with 64 classrooms, a cafeteria capable of seating 3,000 people, 231 student dormitory rooms, 376 sets of teacher transitional apartments, and an underground parking garage with 269 spaces. Previously, CREC had already funded the construction of an arts and sports center and a 400-meter standard sports field for the new campus. The topping-out of the No. 1 Dormitory Building marks a further improvement in the supporting functions of the new campus of Rucheng No. 1 Middle School.
CREC's targeted assistance relationship with Rucheng County began in 2002. Over more than two decades, CREC has dispatched a total of 24 outstanding cadres to Rucheng for temporary assignments and assistance, invested over 200 million yuan in aid funds, and funded the construction of more than 150 projects. In 2025, CREC invested 98.27 million yuan in aid funds (including 87.6 million yuan in non-reimbursable assistance), introduced 403 million yuan in aid funds, trained 16,600 grassroots cadres and professionals, and purchased and facilitated the sale of agricultural products worth 74.79 million yuan. CREC has been rated at the highest level in the performance evaluation of targeted assistance work by central units for eight consecutive years.
In the field of educational assistance, CREC has systematically focused on three areas: hardware upgrades, teaching quality improvement, and employment services. In addition to the series of funded projects at Rucheng No. 1 Middle School, CREC has also donated the construction of a teaching building and two student dormitory buildings for the Rucheng County Skills Education and Training Base. Concurrently, it has supported the establishment of programs such as excavator operation, engineering surveying technology, and transportation engineering machinery application, helping Rucheng Vocational Secondary School become a benchmark for vocational education in Chenzhou City. The relocation of the entire new campus of Rucheng No. 1 Middle School is one of the county's largest livelihood projects. Once the No. 1 Student Dormitory Building is completed, it will effectively improve the school's conditions and student living environment, further enhancing the campus's supporting functions.
The topping-out of the dormitory building's main structure represents another achievement in CREC's ongoing educational assistance efforts in Rucheng, providing support for the steady development of county-level education in Rucheng.
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