Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 480 Someone found Fang Minghua and invited him to do publicity

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Fang Minghua and Zhao Hongjun looked at him with some surprise.

Zhang Jianlin explained: "In fact, I feel uncomfortable seeing the school in such a bad state. In the past two years, I have been busy and have earned a little. This time you are donating, I will also donate a little, so that my uncle won't say that I don't have the consciousness of a party member."

"That's great. In a few days, the city and county will hold a donation ceremony in the village. You can also participate!" Zhao Hongjun said.

"Forget it, forget it." Zhang Jianlin said quickly: "I'll just donate that little bit, don't let anyone else know."

"1000 yuan is a lot. What's more, you are contributing to your hometown after getting rich through hard work! The county will definitely publicize it." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

Three days later, on the playground of Bandeng Village's primary school, red flags were waving and gongs and drums were beating as a donation ceremony for the new Bandeng Village primary school was held.

Leaders from all levels of Baiyin Province, cities and counties sat on a temporary rostrum, with villagers from Bandeng Village and primary school students sitting below.

First, the leader spoke, and then the three donors walked onto the makeshift podium, where three young pioneers with red cheeks put red scarves on them respectively.

The three of them were also in high spirits, especially Zhang Jianlin, who specially went to the county town to buy a blue suit and a red tie in order to attend the ceremony.

The three donors spoke shortly after. Zhao Hongjun spoke first, first fondly recalling the place where he had worked as a sent-down youth. Then, from an entrepreneur's perspective, he explained that while our company should achieve economic benefits, it should also focus on social benefits and do things that benefit the people and give back to society.

Zhang Jianlin praised the Party's policies. Now people should work hard to get rich. They should not only make themselves rich but also make everyone rich. They should not only build their own houses well but also work hard to change the place where they live and build our beautiful home.
Fang Minghua was the last to speak.

He didn't mention much about donations, but mentioned rural education.

"We should not only pay attention to rural school buildings and other infrastructure, and to out-of-school children, but also to the living conditions of teachers like Zhang Xuewen from Bandeng Village Primary School! And situations like Zhang Xuewen are not uncommon in Baiyin nationwide. They have dedicated their youth and even their entire lives to rural education. They are the backbone of rural basic education!"

There was warm applause from both on and off the stage.

Zhang Xuewen, who was sitting with the students, did not applaud. He just listened silently, but his eyes were a little red.

The entire donation ceremony was filmed live by Baiyin TV and quickly made into news for the city TV station, which was then rebroadcasted by the provincial TV station and some domestic print media.

This was the first time that a company or individual donated to build a primary school in Gansu Province, and it immediately attracted the attention of a domestic foundation.

Yenching, Youth Development Foundation.

"Old Xu, take a look at this news." A middle-aged man excitedly knocked on the office door of Xu Yongguang, then secretary-general of the foundation, holding a newspaper.

Xu Yongguang took it and looked at it. It was yesterday's Guangming Daily, which published a news report that someone in Baiyin City, Gansu Province funded the construction of a rural primary school.

"Building a primary school? This idea coincides with ours, Lao Yu." Xu Yongguang's eyes suddenly lit up.

There is a social background here.

In 1988, my country promulgated the "Regulations on the Administration of Foundations", which was the first legislation on foundations in my country. The regulations clarified the legal nature and status of foundations through legislation for the first time.

The China Youth Foundation came into being.

After the foundation was established, the first issue to be resolved was what type of public welfare project to undertake, and their attention soon turned to the problem of school dropouts among poor rural students.

According to data from relevant departments, in the late 80s, more than one million primary school students in my country dropped out of school every year because their families were poor and could not afford the 100 or yuan in book fees.

In 1986, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League sent people to Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, to conduct a two-month investigation. The investigation found that "in an ordinary village in a certain Yao Autonomous County, with a total population of more than 2000, there has not been a single junior high school student since liberation, and the dropout rate is over 90%."

Helping children in poor areas who have dropped out of school has become a very important task. Of course, to carry out this work, we need to publicize it so that more people will know about it.

But when the foundation was established, it only had 100,000 yuan in funding, and the government did not allocate a penny, so the foundation had to raise all the funds on its own, making it difficult to carry out its work.

Isn’t this news in the newspaper the best opportunity?

"Is this Fang Minghua the vice chairman of the Qin Province Writers Association? He just stepped down as the editor-in-chief of Yanhe Magazine?" Xu Yongguang asked, looking at the photo in the newspaper. "Yes, it's him! I asked around." Old Yu said.

Old Yu's name is Yu Hailong. He smiled and said, "The newspaper only reported that Fang Minghua is a writer from Qin Province, and did not mention his position. I guess Fang Minghua doesn't want to be so high-profile."

"Then we will look for him, hoping that he can cooperate with us and use this donation as an opportunity to publicize the fund project that we are about to launch. He is a celebrity." Xu Yongguang said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll go to Gan Province right away."

"Then I'll trouble you to go there. I'll contact the head of the Gansu Provincial Youth League Committee and try to contact Fang Minghua, so that they won't leave when you go."

Fang Minghua and the others were about to leave.

Ever since the donation ceremony, they have had very little free time. They are either invited to seminars or meetings by relevant city and county departments, or they are being interviewed by the media.

Zhao Hongjun felt a little excited at first, but later he got annoyed.

I am revisiting an old place, wanting to reminisce about my youthful years at the place where I was sent to work in the countryside. What the hell is this reminiscing about!
I have to give reports all day long.

Immediately discuss with Fang Minghua and leave quickly.

Fang Minghua was already extremely annoyed, but he managed to keep his composure and knew that this was Chinese society and that it was their job to have people come to interview and hold discussions.

Let's understand each other.

Now that Zhao Hongjun is leaving, of course I have no objection.

Zhang Jianlin actually likes this kind of life surrounded by people, but he is a little worried because he hasn't been to the construction site for several days.

There can't be any accidents on the construction site, this is our lifeblood.
Early this morning, after breakfast, Zhang Jianlin rode his red rooster hurriedly to the construction site in the county town, while Fang Minghua and others went to the village committee to formally bid farewell to the old branch secretary.

In fact, Zhang Guisheng was still a little reluctant.

Since the two of them arrived, this remote little village, which was seldom visited, has suddenly become lively. In his words, the leaders they have met during this period are more and of higher levels than they have ever met in their entire lives.

Of course, this is just personal vanity, and the village also gets real benefits.

In addition to Fang Minghua and his team helping to build the school, the leaders of the county water conservancy bureau have agreed to dig a well in the village to solve the problem of water shortage for the people.

The leaders of the Agriculture Bureau also promised to build an irrigation canal this winter so that the more than 300 acres of wheat fields in the east of the village can be irrigated with water from the irrigation area, ending the history of relying on the weather for food.

This is a real benefit.

So, when Zhang Guisheng heard that Fang Minghua and the others were leaving, he really couldn't bear to let them go.

He first tried to persuade them to stay, and finally welcomed them to come back often in the future, especially in the fall when the school was completed, and also reminded them to be careful on the road.

That look, that look.

It reminded Fang Minghua of a folk song.

Brother, please leave the village.

Little sister, I have something to say

Walk to the entrance of the main road, many people and horses come to relieve your worries
But what Fang Minghua did not expect was that as the car just drove out of the village entrance, a jeep came from the opposite direction and blocked their way.

(End of this chapter)