Picture source: data picture. Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College.
Yang Guoqiang, founder of Country Garden Group, a private enterprise in Guangdong, has been committed to poverty alleviation through education for 21 years. He has won the China Poverty Eradication Award for his innovative educational poverty alleviation concepts and effective practices.
Setting up vocational colleges for poor students
In 2014, the State Council held a national vocational education work conference. Technical and skilled talents have become the training goal of vocational education, and school-enterprise collaborative education has become an important aspect of running schools. Way. Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College came into being. The Guangdong Guoqiang Charity Foundation established by Country Garden Chairman Yang Guoqiang and Vice Chairman Yang Huiyan invested 450 million yuan to establish this school.
The school mainly recruits poor students and provides free education. It not only frees tuition, textbooks, room and board, but also provides clothing, bedding, and round-trip travel expenses for visiting relatives during winter and summer vacations. By the end of 2017, the college had enrolled 1,382 poor students, accounting for 97.7% of the total students.
In terms of school running model, the school boldly innovates, implements the integration of industry and education, and school-enterprise education. It relies on the business platform of Country Garden Group, a Fortune 500 company, and adopts a dual-qualified teaching system that combines full-time and part-time students. Scholar-type and expert-type executives are selected from enterprises to serve as teachers, allowing students to practice nearby and master production and management skills in actual combat scenarios to achieve precise employment and "employment upon graduation."
In July last year, Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College sent away its first batch of 290 graduates. All of them were employed, and their average monthly salary exceeded the level of undergraduates in Guangdong. Li Jiaxin, whose family was in financial difficulties, originally planned to go out to work to supplement the family income after graduating from high school, but it coincided with the enrollment of Country Garden Vocational College. After graduating from the hotel major, she went abroad and worked as a Western food supervisor in a five-star hotel in Malaysia. Not only did she achieve better personal development, but her family conditions also improved significantly.
Set up bursaries to support poor students
Yang Guoqiang was born in a poor family and did not wear shoes before the age of 18. He relied on the government to provide free tuition of 7 yuan and a subsidy of 2 yuan for living expenses to complete his education. . "The journey I have taken has made me deeply aware of the importance of knowledge, which can change your destiny. Knowledge is the best weapon to overcome poverty." As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Yang Guoqiang has always been concerned about education, and has participated in the proposals of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for five consecutive years. Focusing on poverty alleviation through education and vocational education.
In 1997, as soon as Yang Guoqiang's career started to improve, he used half of his net worth to establish the "Zhongming Scholarship" in his mother's name to help poor college students in Guangdong Province. After that, he continued to inject 1 million yuan every year. Since 2006, the amount has been increased to 2 million yuan per year. Over the past 21 years, nearly 10,000 poor students have benefited from this and completed higher education.
Yang Guoqiang did not stop at this "blood transfusion" education poverty alleviation model. In 2002, he began to explore the "hematogenesis" education poverty alleviation model, personally investing 260 million yuan to establish a completely free boarding high school—— Kwok Wah Memorial High School.
In addition to recruiting poor students with excellent academic performance to receive free education, the school also fully funds them to complete university, master's and even doctoral studies. Over the past 16 years, Guohua Memorial Middle School *** has recruited 2,747 students from across the country. The school’s undergraduate admission rate has reached 100 for nine consecutive years, and the key undergraduate admission rate has exceeded 95. Many of the past graduates have become elites in their respective fields.
Use love to awaken more love
Zhang Feiteng, the first graduate of the engineering cost major of Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College, walked out of school and chose to join the Country Garden Social Responsibility Department and participated in Tianyang, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region County’s Country Garden seedling industry poverty alleviation project. "I have gone from being a recipient to being a helper. Along the way, the biggest feeling is that I have gained happiness and the satisfaction of fulfilling my responsibilities." Zhang Feiteng said.
“Guohua students should make contribution to society their lifelong pursuit.
Zhang Qiang, a graduate of Guohua Memorial Middle School, also had the same sentiments. Although he has graduated many years ago, he still remembers this inscription on the wall of the auditorium of his alma mater. In June 2016, Guohua graduates spontaneously established an alumni association, and Zhang Qiang actively He took the initiative to take up the organizational work and assumed the position of vice president. Before the school released the donation information, he found the school to donate in advance.
On June 26, 2016, the Alumni Association was established. On that day, more than 600 Guohua students, including Zhang Qiang, returned to their alma mater from all over the country to participate in the launching ceremony. They simultaneously established an alumni fund and donated more than 600,000 yuan in the first phase. “Today is the happiest day in my life. "Yang Guoqiang said with emotion, "Seeing the students I helped inherit the love and passing on the legacy is even happier than when the company ranks among the top 500 companies in the world. ”
As the fight against poverty continues to deepen, Yang Guoqiang hopes that the free and high-quality educational resources he provides can be tilted towards the places where they are most needed. Previously, Country Garden Vocational College only recruited poor students from the four provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei and Guangxi. , this year the enrollment will cover the four provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Hunan, and independent enrollment will be carried out for the first time.
"People's Daily" (page 13, May 14, 2018)
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