Britain's Harrow eyes setting up school in SW China

 CHENGDU, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The Harrow Family of Schools, the alma mater of Winston Churchill and other dignitaries, is seeking to set up a school in southwest China, which would be its second campus on the Chinese mainland after Beijing, a top local official said Thursday.

The establishment of Harrow International School in Chengdu has made "substantial progress" since the school signed a partnership¹ agreement with a local company, said Huang Xinchu, secretary of the Chengdu municipal committee of the Communist Party of China.

Huang made the comments after meeting with a group of officials from Harrow led by Mark Hensman, executive headmaster of Harrow International Schools. Huang said the school would provide a top quality education for Chengdu's business expatriates.

Harrow has set up schools in Beijing and Bangkok, Thailand. Previous media reports said the Harrow International School in Beijing took foreign students aged² 11 to 18 and charged an extraordinary fee of around 1.1 million yuan (173,228 U.S. dollars) for the seven years of education.

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。