Founded in 1871, Beijing Huiwen Middle School has a legendary history of over one hundred and forty years. It is a complete secondary school including the senior secondary school section, the junior secondary school section and the international department.

The campus covers an area of 53128 square meters. There is a teaching building, a lab building, a multi-functional building, a dormitory building, a standard sports field and a gymnasium, with up-to-date multi-media, facilities for distance education, and a collection of 120,000 books in the library.

Huiwen sticks to whole person education as its philosophy of education, and Wisdom, Benevolence and Courage as its school motto. It also sticks to fostering student’s overall development, the integration of academic learning and morality and ethics, the integration of theoretical learning and social practice, and the integration of overall development and personalized development. It promotes the full integration of moral, mental, physical development and aesthetic education so as to improve student’s comprehensive quality and realize the ultimate goal of whole person development.

Beijing Huiwen Middle School is the first authorized secondary school in Beijing to admit foreign students from abroad. Since 1994, when Beijing Huiwen Language and Culture School was founded, over 5000 international students from more than 30 countries and areas have finished their long term or short term studies here. The international department focuses on its degree program. Its results of various university entrance exams have been steady among the top schools of basic education that are qualified for international education in China. All the graduates have been admitted by renowned Chinese or overseas universities. Its scale and quality of secondary school international education has always been in a leading place, with considerable influence abroad.