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BRS–Merchiston Greater Bay Area International Examination Centre

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At the intersection of two major national strategies—“Healthy China” and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area—Fazheng Group has reached a historic milestone in its deep-rooted expansion into the region's education and healthcare sectors. 

Fazheng International Education (Beijing Royal School), a subsidiary of Fazheng Group, has formally entered into a strategic partnership with Merchiston International School Shenzhen (MIS), jointly establishing the “Wangfu Merchiston International Assessment Centre.” This marks a substantial step forward in Fazheng Group's ambitious strategy to establish a firm foothold in the Greater Bay Area, reaching across Southeast Asia and connecting to the wider world.

  • 01、Fazheng Group's Greater Bay Area Strategy: Dual‑Driven by Education and Healthcare, Rooted in the Bay Area, Connecting Globally

    As a leading diversified industrial group in mainland China, Fazheng Group has built a distinctive, integrated industrial landscape over more than three decades, spanning healthcare and international education.
    The Group's portfolio includes medical institutions such as Beijing Royal Integrative Medicine Hospital and Taiyangcheng Hospital, alongside its flagship education brand, Beijing Royal School (BRS) . Founded in 1996, this prestigious Beijing-based international school is not only the first Sino-foreign cooperative school in the capital, but also the only AP Teaching Demonstration School in China designated by the College Board, and Beijing’s first Cambridge International Examination Centre.

    BRS holds official test centre accreditation for a full range of international assessments, including A-Level, AP, ACT, TOEFL, IELTS and GRE, and brings nearly three decades of mature experience in school management and standardised test administration.

    Facing the national strategic high ground of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Fazheng Group has made deep engagement in the region a core strategic priority for the new era. Chairman Wang Guangfa has made it clear that the Group is actively aligning with its established strategic framework, continuously expanding into economically developed regions and areas with high standards of talent development. This partnership with MIS represents a critical move in Fazheng Group's “counter‑cyclical expansion and deep cultivation of the Greater Bay Area strategic high ground.”

    The Greater Bay Area is not only a strategic pillar for Fazheng Group's education sector expansion southward, but also a vital part of its healthcare industry. In recent years, Fazheng Group has continued to deepen its presence in healthcare—in 2025, it entered into a strategic partnership with Tung Wah College in Hong Kong, launching a new Beijing-Hong Kong “Health + Education” model; in 2026, it partnered with Yinshan Group to build a cross‑regional healthcare innovation ecosystem. With this move into Shenzhen, the Group will leverage the city's strategic position as the core engine of the Greater Bay Area, using Hong Kong as an international platform to realise its vision of a dual‑industry presence that is “rooted in the Bay Area, connecting north and south, and reaching out to the world.”

  • 02、Why MIS? Two Centuries of British Educational Heritage, a Benchmark for International Education in the Greater Bay Area

    In selecting its strategic partner in the Greater Bay Area, Fazheng Group conducted thorough research and evaluation, ultimately choosing Merchiston International School Shenzhen. MIS is the authorised overseas campus of Merchiston Castle School, a prestigious British independent school with a history of nearly 200 years. It officially opened in Shenzhen in 2018, becoming the city's first international school to offer an authentic British education and boarding system.

    MIS's outstanding academic record fully demonstrates its position as a benchmark for international education in the Greater Bay Area. In the 2026 cohort, 51 graduates received a total of 192 offers from the world’s leading universities—an average of nearly four per student—including the Prince Philip Scholarship at Cambridge University worth RMB 2 million (a record high for Shenzhen), 29 offers from G5 super‑elite universities (including one each from Oxford and Cambridge, six from Imperial College London, and 20 from UCL), and a full scholarship to Amherst College, ranked first among US liberal arts colleges. These educational outcomes are closely aligned with Fazheng Group's educational philosophy of “cultivating future leaders with a strong sense of national identity and a global outlook.”
    As a lawfully registered international school for expatriate children in Shenzhen, MIS possesses modern, standardised examination facilities, a professional academic administration team, and internationally recognised campus management standards. It has already received Cambridge Assessment International Education accreditation and is a registered centre for AQA, Edexcel and CAIE. It is precisely on the basis of MIS's deep British educational heritage, outstanding academic results, and comprehensive facilities that Fazheng Group selected it as its first educational partner for the Greater Bay Area strategy.

  • 03、Chairman Wang Guangfa Visits Shenzhen and Hong Kong in Person: Strategic Vision and Forward‑Looking Planning

    Chairman Wang Guangfa attaches great importance to this Greater Bay Area strategic partnership, travelling personally to Shenzhen and Hong Kong for on‑site inspections and research, laying the strategic groundwork for the establishment of the International Assessment Centre and deeper bilateral cooperation. As Chairman Wang emphasised at the 2025 Fazheng Group Education Business Summary Conference, the Group's strategic cooperation with high‑quality international education platforms in the Greater Bay Area will leverage the resources of both the capital city and the Greater Bay Area to create two‑way synergies and empower the development of the education industry. This collaboration brings together expert teams from Hong Kong and overseas, marking the beginning of Fazheng Group's deep engagement with global educational resources.
    Chairman Wang's visit not only facilitated the formal establishment of the Wangfu Merchiston International Assessment Centre, but also looked further ahead—leveraging Hong Kong's unique position as an international gateway to transform the Greater Bay Area into a core hub connecting Fazheng Group to global education and healthcare resources. This strategic vision is consistent with the Group's earlier Beijing-Hong Kong partnership with Tung Wah College, fully reflecting Chairman Wang's forward‑looking perspective of “empowering through the deep integration of global resources and practical experience in smart healthcare.”

  • 04、Wangfu Merchiston International Assessment Centre: Full‑Spectrum Coverage, Building a Digital Assessment Hub for the Greater Bay Area

    The Wangfu Merchiston International Assessment Centre is officially established at MIS Shenzhen, offering a full suite of UK and US mainstream international curriculum and language proficiency assessments, covering all the essential examination needs of both domestic and overseas students:
    UK academic assessments include full A‑Level subject examinations and Cambridge Assessment International Education (CIE) assessments (IGCSE, Cambridge English Qualifications such as KET/PET/FCE, etc.)
    US academic assessments include AP (Advanced Placement) and ACT (American College Test)Global language proficiency tests include IELTS and TOEFL
    Leveraging BRS's years of experience in operating official test centres, its standardised examination management system, and digital testing infrastructure, combined with MIS Shenzhen's modern, standardised testing facilities and professional academic administration team, the Centre will implement globally consistent, rigorous testing standards. It will achieve fully digitised, closed‑loop management across the entire process—from registration and preparation to computer‑based and paper‑based testing, and result reporting.
    The Centre's core positioning is to serve as a comprehensive international digital assessment service hub, rooted in Shenzhen at the heart of the Greater Bay Area, serving students both on campus and across the wider region, bridging the gap between “on‑campus learning—on‑campus assessment—global university admission,” and addressing the critical shortage of high‑standard international testing facilities in the Greater Bay Area.

  • 05、Industry Significance: Serving National Strategy and Supporting the Development of an International Talent Hub in the Greater Bay Area

    This strategic partnership has received close attention and support from the TOEFL Testing Centre (China Region) and the National Education Examinations Authority. As a long‑standing partner of ETS China, BRS has maintained ongoing collaboration on TOEFL test centre development and ETS's full range of assessment products. The establishment of the Wangfu Merchiston International Assessment Centre brings global language proficiency tests such as TOEFL and IELTS systematically into Shenzhen's central urban area for the first time, marking a milestone in the development of international education assessment infrastructure in the Greater Bay Area.
    From a broader perspective, Shenzhen, as the core engine of the Greater Bay Area, is home to a large number of foreign‑invested enterprises, expatriate employees, and cross‑border schooling families. International standardised testing is an essential component of the city's international public service infrastructure. The establishment of a comprehensive international assessment centre enhances the city's international public education service provision, reduces the educational costs for expatriate and international schooling families, and will continue to attract international talent to settle and develop their careers, contributing to Shenzhen's goal of building an international talent hub. At the same time, this collaboration unlocks two‑way resource flows between Beijing's established international school benchmark and Shenzhen's leading international school for expatriate children, breaking the traditional pattern of isolated, closed‑door development among international schools in China, and providing a replicable reference model for cross‑regional international education collaboration nationwide.

  • 01、Centre Overview

    The BRS–Merchiston Greater Bay Area International Examination Centre is jointly established by Beijing Royal School (BRS) and Merchiston International School (MIS), Shenzhen. Located on the sixth floor of the Merchiston International School campus in Shenzhen, the Centre serves as a one-stop, authoritative international standardised testing hub for the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, with services extending across South China.

    With over 30 years of expertise in international assessment, Beijing Royal School is one of China's leading officially authorised comprehensive test centres. As a strategic partner of ETS, the three Cambridge Assessment examination boards, and the College Board, BRS has developed extensive experience in standardised test centre operations, examination administration, and academic assessment planning. The school has received numerous prestigious recognitions, including the ETS Outstanding Test Centre Award and the British Council Five-Star IELTS Demonstration School.

    Merchiston International School (Shenzhen), the official overseas campus of the nearly 200-year-old Merchiston Castle School in the UK, is one of Shenzhen's leading British-style boarding international schools. The school offers a comprehensive A-Level and IGCSE curriculum alongside well-established university guidance services tailored to the Greater Bay Area, with outstanding admission results to Oxford, Cambridge, the UK G5 universities, and other world-renowned institutions.

    By integrating the strengths of both schools—including official testing authorisations, state-of-the-art examination facilities, experienced professional invigilation teams, and university admissions expertise—the Centre has created one of the Greater Bay Area's few fully integrated international examination platforms, combining language proficiency testing, international academic qualifications, and academic competitions under one roof.

    The Centre addresses the longstanding challenges of fragmented international testing resources and limited access to premium examination seats in South China. It provides compliant, professional, and comprehensive testing services for students from both partner schools, international schools throughout the Greater Bay Area, and independent candidates preparing for overseas study, while establishing a complete assessment ecosystem encompassing teaching, mock examinations, official examinations, and university admissions planning.

  • 02、Comprehensive Services

    A. Official Standardised Examinations

    1. English Language Proficiency Tests

    Core language assessments for overseas study applications, including:

    • TOEFL iBT
    • TOEFL Junior
    • IELTS (Academic & UKVI)
    • GRE
    • Cambridge English Qualifications (KET, PET, FCE, CAE)
    • LanguageCert
    • Duolingo English Test mock examinations
    • Official TPO practice tests

    2. International Academic Qualifications

    Official examinations for British and American secondary curricula, including:

    • Cambridge International (CAIE) A-Level & IGCSE
    • Pearson Edexcel A-Level & IGCSE
    • OxfordAQA A-Level & IGCSE
    • Advanced Placement (AP)
    • PSAT
    • STEP
    • IB internal assessments
    • Cambridge CEM Adaptive Entrance Assessments

    3. International Mathematics & Subject Competitions

    Official offline testing venue for internationally recognised academic competitions, including:

    • AMC Series
    • Euclid Mathematics Contest
    • Gauss Mathematics Contest
    • CSIMC
    • Other internationally recognised subject competitions

    4. Additional Assessments

    • HSK & HSKK Chinese Proficiency Tests
    • Arts proficiency examinations
    • Internal academic diagnostic assessments

    B. End-to-End Value-Added Services

    1. Comprehensive Registration Support

    • Official examination registration guidance
    • Test booking assistance
    • Identification and document verification
    • Pre-examination consultation
    • Overseas SAT/ACT examination tour coordination

    2. Authentic Mock Examination Programme

    Official-standard mock examinations replicating real testing conditions, including TPO and Cambridge computer-based tests, accompanied by detailed performance analysis reports to identify individual learning needs.

    3. Personalised Examination Planning

    Tailored annual examination schedules based on students' academic pathways (A-Level, AP, or DSE), intended university destinations, and curriculum progression.

    4. Professional Examination Administration

    Certified invigilation teams ensure examinations are conducted in accordance with global examination board regulations. Facilities include:

    • Standardised silent computer laboratories
    • Dedicated waiting areas
    • Candidate rest facilities

    All examination results are internationally recognised by universities worldwide.

    5. University Admissions Support

    Working closely with the university counselling departments of both schools, the Centre provides integrated guidance on university selection, application essays, and admissions strategies, creating a seamless pathway from assessment to admission.

    6. Group Testing Services

    Customised examination sessions, large-scale mock examinations, and teacher assessment training programmes are available for international schools and educational organisations throughout the Greater Bay Area.

  • 03、Core Strengths

    1. Backed by Two Leading International Schools

    Combining over three decades of examination management expertise from Beijing Royal School with the authentic British educational heritage of Merchiston International School, all examinations are officially authorised by organisations including ETS, Cambridge Assessment, and the British Council. Examination results are internationally recognised by universities worldwide, distinguishing the Centre from independent commercial testing providers.

    2. Premium Standardised Testing Facilities

    The Centre occupies an independent examination zone on the sixth floor of the campus, featuring:

    • Dedicated paper-based examination rooms
    • Silent computer-based testing laboratories
    • Individual speaking test booths
    • Comfortable waiting lounges
    • Secure baggage storage

    All facilities are designed to meet international examination standards, with high-speed secure networks, professional soundproofing, and comprehensive CCTV monitoring to ensure fairness, security, and reliability.

    3. National Expertise with Localised Service

    Beijing Royal School contributes its mature examination management systems, official mock examination resources, and examiner training programmes, while Merchiston International School provides local expertise tailored to the educational needs of students across the Greater Bay Area. The Centre supports multiple progression pathways, including British, American, and Hong Kong (DSE) curricula, while offering convenient access for local candidates.

    4. A Fully Integrated Teaching-to-Assessment Ecosystem

    Unlike standalone external examination centres, the Centre is fully integrated with the academic programmes, AI Future Academy, and university guidance systems of both schools. Students can progress seamlessly from classroom learning to authentic mock examinations and official assessments without travelling between cities. At the same time, the Centre remains fully open to external candidates, delivering the same high-quality standardised examination experience to all examinees.

     

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