Children are the flowers of the motherland, the hope of the nation and the future of the country. Every child wants to be loved and needs care.

Under the guidance of the All-China Women’s Federation, the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund and Hengyuanxiang (Group) Co., Ltd. jointly initiated and implemented the “Eternal Love Action” public welfare project in 2005, calling on “caring parents” to knit a new way of loving sweaters for orphans and disabled children. The children bring the warm care of the party and society.

In the past 15 years, the "Eternal Love Action" insisted on knitting sweaters for orphans and disabled children, and at the same time sent love to more needy children, and assumed the new mission of promoting national unity and border stability. Today, the warm map woven by the "Eternal Love Action" has covered 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. With its unique charm, the project has produced good social benefits in multiple directions.

Warm the hearts of millions of children

The "Eternal Love Action" 15th Anniversary Achievement Report released by the China Children and Teenagers' Fund on December 21 shows that up to now, the "Eternal Love Action" has received 606,000 kilograms of love wool from Hengyuanxiang Group and has knitted more than 1.15 million love sweaters. , Benefiting millions of children in need and children of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. "Eternal Love Action" has developed into one of the famous children's charity projects, and won the "China Charity Award-The Most Influential Charity Project" three times in 2008, 2009, and 2015.

Although the sweater is small, it warms the hearts of the children while warming them. Ma Xiaoting, a 16-year-old Hui girl who lives in Datong County, Qinghai Province, has never seen her biological mother. Her father has been away from home for more than ten years without any news. She has always buried her desire for love in her heart. When she received the "Eternal Love" sweater knitted by her teacher 4 years ago, she hugged the teacher tightly and whispered "Mom" quietly.

"At that moment, a piece of ice in my heart may slowly begin to melt. For many children, a sweater may be something to protect against the cold in winter, but to me, this kind of warmth seems to have the warmth of my mother's arms. Although I I don't know where my mother is, but I know this society is full of love..." Ma Xiaoting said.

Similar to Ma Xiaoting, Wei Yiran, a 12-year-old girl from Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, lacked the company of her parents since she was a child, but was comforted by the heart of a loving sweater. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she became a small propagandist for epidemic prevention in the autonomous prefecture. "I also want to use love to protect others, just like 'Eternal Love' protects me." She said.

The "Eternal Love Action" brings ordinary and precious gifts of life to children, allows them to feel the care of a mother, gains the confidence and courage to grow up healthy in adversity, and promotes the physical and mental health of children in difficulties.

The bond that connects millions of families

In 2014, in order to implement the spirit of the second Central Xinjiang Work Symposium and give full play to the positive role of families of all ethnic groups in maintaining social stability and long-term stability in Xinjiang, the "Eternal Love Action" was upgraded to the "Eternal Love Action-the front line of affection for millions of families "Leading" public welfare activities, mobilizing the majority of inland families and Xinjiang minority families to knit and donate love sweaters to each other.

Rezeye Maimat, a 12-year-old Uighur girl from Karamay, Xinjiang, has a wish to go to Hainan to see the sea because she received a sweater knitted by her loving mother from Hainan. "I have never paid attention to this strange place before. The 'Eternal Love Action' made me realize the warmth of the big family of the motherland, and the vastness of the motherland. The motherland is so big, I want to go and see, Hainan, please wait for me !"she says.

"Dear child, is it snowing over your place? Auntie knits a thick sweater and wants to wrap you warmly. Although we are far apart, I hope you can feel a close love. Live happily. Every day, come on!” This is a message card clipped in a loving sweater. The writer comes from Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital.

2020 is extremely busy for medical workers. However, while fighting the new Covid-19 epidemic, the white angels squeezed time and energy together with colleagues and family members to pick up sweater needles to knit sweaters for children in ethnic minority areas in Xinjiang. According to Shi Yaming, director of the Party Committee and Mass Work Department of the National Health Commission, this year the National Health Commission received 1,720 kilograms of wool and completed 2,538 love knitting products.

Sweaters with ardent blessings crossed the mountains and seas, setting up a bridge for communication and loving interaction between families of various ethnic groups in the inland and Xinjiang, and played a unique role in promoting ethnic unity and maintaining social harmony and stability.

Connecting the love of millions of ordinary people

With the power of a woolen thread, the "Eternal Love Action" evokes the public's altruism, friendship, and dedication, and cultivates a culture of charity. Among the sweater knitters are old people who care about the next generation, young people born in the 1990s and 00s, and self-reliant mothers with disabilities, as well as many people with great love. The weaver and the child have never met, but they are always connected.

Chen Zhongwei, chairman and general manager of Hengyuanxiang Group, calculated a time account: In a busy modern society, it takes as little as two weeks to knit a sweater in leisure time, and it takes as long as a month to complete 1.15 million sweaters. A very large number. "This just shows that our society is full of love." He said.

Behind every love sweater is a moving story about the knitters: Tianjin city model worker and "sweater grandfather" Guo Yukuan has participated in the "Eternal Love Action" for the past 10 years and led a friend to set up a model worker knitting group; Shanghai 77-year-old retired Teacher Yan Jiazhen knitted zodiac sweaters for children in Wuhan during the epidemic. In the past 14 years, she has donated 234 sweaters. Many college students humbly asked their elders how to knit. In order to complete the task, they stayed up all night while giving love to family members. The time is more intimate...15 years of "eternal love" warm road, because every ordinary person joins, getting stronger and wider, and wider.

On December 21st-the winter solstice day, the 2020 "Eternal Love Action-One-line Linkage of One Million Families" was launched in the cloud. This "Eternal Love" train, as always, carries the care and care for the children, and set off again for warmth and light.