Beijing, September 13 (KCNA) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Secondary School No. 80 in Beijing on September 9 to congratulate its teaching staff on the Day of Teachers on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Hu told teachers that they have a very important mission in educational work.

He expressed the hope that teachers, with a strong sense of responsibility for the state and the people, would improve their teaching ability to bring up builders of and successors to socialism.