The school adheres to the socialist school-running direction, fully implements the Party's educational policy, puts education first in school work, runs schools according to law, deepens education and teaching reform, actively promotes quality education, carries out all-round education for all students and special education suitable for students' personality development, establishes the management concept of "people-oriented, quality-oriented, and full participation", and takes the road of teaching research schools to optimize the teaching process; Pay attention to the construction of teachers' morality, focus on changing the concept of education and teaching, strengthen the construction of teachers' political thoughts, work style and teachers' morality, comprehensively study and implement the spirit of national, provincial and municipal education work conferences and the relevant provisions and measures of "reducing the burden" for primary and secondary school students, generally improve the political quality of teaching staff, and all teaching staff can devote themselves to studying the theory of education and teaching, actively change the concept of education, and improve the ability and level of implementing quality education. Take the lead in offering art elective courses, labor education courses and health education courses in the province. The school has made remarkable achievements in physical education, forming traditional advantages and school-running characteristics. Since 1987, it has been successively rated as "National Excellent School of Traditional Sports", "National Excellent School of Implementing School Sports Regulations", "Advanced Collective of Education System in Gansu Province", "Advanced Unit of Professional Ethics Construction in Gansu Province" and "Advanced Collective of Open and Democratic Management of School Affairs in Gansu Province". And was rated as "national advanced unit of school physical education and health work" twice. For the construction and development of the school, provincial and municipal leaders have visited the school many times to inspect and guide the work, giving great concern and guidance. Vice Governor Li Zhong 'an, Vice Mayor Ma and leaders of provincial and municipal education committees visited the school many times to give specific guidance on the construction and development of the school, and fully affirmed the school's implementation of the spirit of the national education work conference and its active promotion of quality education.

Since 1996, the school has taken striving for a model ordinary high school as an important measure to deepen the reform of school education and teaching. The appearance and conditions of the school have undergone fundamental changes, the campus layout is reasonable and the educational environment is beautiful. It has a fully functional comprehensive experimental building and a lawn football field. In order to adapt to modern teaching, modern technical education equipment and facilities have been added, and campus TV stations have been established. The quality of education and teaching and the level of running a school have been steadily improved, which has won a good reputation in the society. In March, 2000, Lanzhou Municipal Government named it as the Model Middle School of Lanzhou Education Development Project 542, and passed the evaluation and acceptance of the model ordinary high schools in Gansu Province.