In 1963, at a time when the Greater Khingan Range railway network was expanding, builders in Yiturihe established a full secondary school for the children of railway workers. They completed the Ruins of Yiturihe Yitie No. 1 Middle School after eighteen years of evolution, when in 1981 it became the dedicated junior division of the former Yiturihe Railway Middle School. This institution once stood as the educational heart of a remote railway town.

Above, a grey concrete roof covers the office block and three single-storey classrooms, their facades plain and functional. Below, brick-and-concrete walls frame the corridors, while timber-framed windows once let in the northern light. The office building, built of brick-and-concrete, anchors the campus, while the three single-storey buildings, built of brick-and-timber, housed the classrooms. Builders used local materials and straightforward construction methods, reflecting the practical needs of a railway-run school serving a remote community. The layout was simple: functional, no-nonsense, built to last rather than to impress.

Today, the Ruins of Yiturihe Yitie No. 1 Middle School stand vacant, the classrooms silent since the school merged with another in August 2011. The campus was reassigned to a primary and secondary school, then later put up for transfer in 2019. Yet the empty buildings, with their faded blackboards and scattered desks, still bear witness to generations of railway workers' children who passed through their doors.