Dangyang city, Hubei: Mr. Lei donated money for education

 www.guangong.hk news: On November 27, the chairman of the Hong Kong World Guan Gong Culture Promotion Association, Mr. Lei went to the Jianshe primary and secondary schools which was located in Yuxi Town Dangyang and held a grand ceremony of the donation. Mr. Lei, who represented for the Lui Pak Wai Charitable Trust, donated 105.8 thousand Yuan and made two sets of uniforms for all 550 students each.

The chairman of United Front Work Department Overseas Center of Hubei, Provincial Committee and the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong World Guan Gong Culture Promotion Association, Zhu Zhengming, and the minister of Dangyang Standing Committee, the Municipal Party Committee and the minister of the United Front, Tan Zhijun attended the ceremony and delivered a speech successively.

The children wearing the new uniforms surrounded Mr.Lei happily.

The scene of the donation ceremony

conference hall of the donation ceremony

Mr. Zhu said that although Mr. Lei was born in Hong Kong and grew up in American, he never forgot the root of the Chinese and spread love to every corner of China. He supported the culture and education successively in many places such as Hubei, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Tibet, etc, and he was generally praised by all the local leaders of party and government as well as the common people. Zhu Zhengming also told the story that Mr. Lei brought his sons who used to study in New York back to China. He took them to tour the beautiful sceneries of motherland and to Tibet for the donation. The speech won enthusiastic applause.

Tan Zhijun said that people worshiped the Guan Gong for thousand years and its nature was to worship the noble moral personality of him. Donating money for schools was the traditional virtues of Chinese nation as well as the benevolence which combined with the moral behavior under the condition of socialist market economy.

(photography: Zhu Zhengming)