On July 30, 2018, the donation and launch ceremony of the 2018 “Spring Bud x Aoding” education aid program was held in Beijing. At the ceremony, Qingdao Aoding Health Industry Group donated 1.1 million yuan to the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund for the third time. In the past three years, it has donated a total of 3.3 million yuan. Zhu Xisheng, the General Secretary of the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund, accepted the donation and awarded the flag to the 2018 “Spring Bud x Aoding” charity event.

According to Zhu, letting children in poor areas receive a good education is an important task of poverty alleviation and development, as well as an important way to stop the inter-generational transmission of poverty. The China Children and Teenagers’ Fund has always made improving the educational environment for children in poor areas an important mission. We look forward to deepening and expanding the program content with Qingdao Aoding Health Industry Group in the future cooperation, expanding the scope of benefits and to help more children and families.

Yang Xiaojie, the chairman of Qingdao Aoding Health Industry Group, said that the “Spring Bud x Aoding” charity event will be an important part of the corporate culture strategy and will continue as a planned and systematic work. They will always insist on giving material assistance to poor students, while paying attention to the children’s spiritual encouragement and comfort.

A staff from Aoding shared a story of Xiao Jia. Xiao Jia’s mother remarried away from home, and her father died when went out for work. Xiao Jia has never seen her parents since she can remembet. She grew up with her grandparents. When Spring Bud & Aoding Team returned to visit her family, she was silent at first. When she learned that the program could help her finish university study, Xiao Jia couldn’t help crying and said, “I will study hard and live up to the expectations of those people helped me”.

Since the program launched in 2016, the Qingdao Aoding company has mobilized staff to conduct field visits to more than 1,600 poor students’ families out of the 5,000 students it has funded. The local staff also paired up with more than 3,000 children who received help for a long time. They also helped them by phone calls, home visits and summer camps in their daily life, so that the girls could broaden their horizon and feel the care from the society.

It is reported that the “Spring Bud” Program initiated by the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund has been implemented for 29 years. It has supported 3.57 millions girls, built 1,732 Spring Bud schools, conducted practical technical training for 526,000 girls, and compiled and issued 2.03 millions of Spring Bud care manuals. A large number of children in poor areas under the “Spring Bud” Program funding, studying hard and working hard, grow into talents of country.