File photo released by Xinhua on July 10, 1992 shows students raising their hands to answer teacher's question at class in Jinggangshan City, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua/Zha Chunming)
Project Hope celebrates its 30th anniversary on Oct. 30, 2019.
BEIJING, Nov. 1, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Project Hope, a Chinese program aiming at financing education for poverty-stricken students, celebrates its 30th anniversary on Oct. 30, 2019. The project was initiated by the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in 1989, and has been supported by people from all walks of life since its establishment.
As of September in 2019, Project Hope has received 15.23 billion yuan (about 2.16 billion U.S. dollars) in donations and aided over 5.99 million students in financial difficulty. A total of 20,195 primary schools were also built, according to the CYDF statistics.
Combo photo shows Su Mingjuan at class in this promotional photo of Hope Project (L, file photo by Xie Hailong) and Su giving gifts to students in Jinzhai Sanhe experimental school, her alma mater in Jinzhai, east China's Anhui Province, May 29, 2019 (R, photo by Wong Congqi). Su Mingjuan, from the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains, became a symbol of Project Hope when this innocent photo of her(photo in the left) moved the country in the 1990s.
After graduation from college, Su was employed by a bank, and every year she provides money to aid students in need. (Xinhua)
Combo photo shows Jinzhai County primary school in June, 1991 (top, file photo by Zhang Shuguang) and pupils having a break at the Jinzhai County primary school in Jinzhai, east China's Anhui Province, Sept. 3, 2019 (bottom, photo by Liu Junxi). As the first primary school built under the Project Hope in China, Jinzhai County primary school was founded on May 19, 1990. (Xinhua)
Combo photo shows Hope Primary School of Luotian County (top, file photo) and students exercising with a teacher at Hope Primary School in Luotian County, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 11, 2019 (bottom, photo by Yao Qilin). (Xinhua)
A giant painting presenting the Chinese characters Project Hope is displayed in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, in this file photo taken on June 1. 1992. (Xinhua/Chen Xiaoying)
People celebrate during the launching ceremony of "hands in hands" Hope Primary School, which was built with children's donation nationwide by using their lunar new year gift money, in Xibaipo Village of Pingshan County, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 24, 1993. (Photo by Zhang Zhigang/Xinhua)
File photo released by Xinhua on April 16, 1999 shows a woman of the Tibetan ethnic group sending her child to Hope Primary School in Layihai Village of Gonghe County in northwest China's Qinghai Province. More than 90 percent of the local children at the school age have gone to boarding schools in Layihai Village since 1990s, thanks to the aid of the Project Hope. (Photo by Wang Jingye/Xinhua)
Students of Yi ethnic group dance at a local Hope Primary School in Mianning County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 20, 2006. (Xinhua/Ren Yong)
Zhou Huosheng, a 73-year-old retired teacher, sells books with a tricycle in Qiandeng Town of Kunshan City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. 7, 2006. Zhou Huosheng has used his savings and income raised by selling books to help children in poverty-stricken area access education in Jinzhai County of east China's Anhui Province since 1994. (Xinhua/Wang Lei)
File photo taken on July 29, 2004 shows Zhou Biaoliang and her students at Hope Primary School of Pingguo county of Baise City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Zhou finished her study with the help of Project Hope. After graduation from college, she went back to her primary school to be a teacher as return. (Xinhua/Chen Ruihua)
Pupils have computer class at the Jinzhai County primary school in Jinzhai, east China's Anhui Province, Sept. 3, 2019. As the first primary school built under the Project Hope in China, Jinzhai County primary school was founded on May 19, 1990. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)■
