A ceremony was held on July 1 at the Beijing Soong Ching Ling Former Residence to mark the founding of the Zhang Senlin Education Fund of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF).
Zhang Lijun (R), chairman of V1 Group Limited, donates 1 million yuan ($140,540) to CSCLF to found the Zhang Senlin Education Fund. [Photo/CSCLF]
Zhang Senlin, who participated in several Chinese revolutionary movements in his early years and has won several national honors, passed away in late 2018. During his life, he cared greatly for education in his hometown of Anping county, Hebei province.
To honor Zhang's memory, his son Zhang Lijun, chairman of V1 Group Limited, donated 1 million yuan ($140,540) to CSCLF to found the Zhang Senlin Education Fund.
The fund will be used to award excellent teachers working in rural areas with the goal of raising the quality of rural education.
Zhang Lijun (fourth from right), chairman of V1 Group Limited, poses for a photo with CSCLF representatives at a ceremony marking the founding of the Zhang Senlin Education Fund. [Photo/CSCLF]
Song Jian, deputy director of the Fund Department of CSCLF, thanked Zhang Senlin and his son for supporting Chinese education.
Over the 37 years since the founding of CSCLF, the foundation has made tremendous achievements with support from Chinese and foreign philanthropists, Song said.
Zhang Lijun said that his father's greatest concern during his life was education in China. He said that his father dreamed of establishing a foundation to support the development of education.
"Part of this donation is from my father", Zhang Lijun said, "it will be used to help support the development of education in underdeveloped areas and to raise awareness of the education quality in rural areas."
(Source: Fund Department of CSCLF)
