Beneficiaries Share Their Project Hope Stories at Its 30th Anniversary

The girl in the symbolic picture of the Project Hope Su Mingjuan — now she's an adult — shares her story with the project in Beijing on Nov 21, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Project Hope was started by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and the China Youth Development Foundation in 1989. It is tasked with improving the education infrastructure and helping children who drop out return to school in the country's poorest areas.

Xie Hailong shares his story of shooting the symbolic picture of Su Mingjuan in Beijing on Nov 21, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

The students helped by the project recite in Beijing on Nov 21, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

A senior couple — Chen Rongchao and his wife Yang Yuxian — share their story with the Project Hope in Beijing on Nov 21, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

He Junke, first secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China, third from right, awards honorary certificates to people who have made outstanding contributions to the Project Hope in Beijing on Nov 21, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]