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On July 18, 2020, the opening ceremony of Linxia Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School and its admissions launch ceremony was held in Daban Town, Dongxiang Autonomous County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. Linxia Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School was founded by Country Garden Group and Guoqiang Charity Foundation with a donation of nearly 300 million yuan. It is a full-time private general secondary vocational school with charitable nature.
According to the comprehensive news of “readCEO “,Donating to school and helping the poor is a noble cause. Relying on the advantages of the Guoqiang Fund initiated by the founder Yang Guoqiang, Country Garden explored the “4+X” poverty alleviation model based on the actual conditions of poverty-stricken areas. “4” refers to the poverty alleviation through party building, industry, education, and employment. “X” refers to the optional action that combines the actual expansion of the assistance area to achieve precise poverty alleviation, such as healthy poverty alleviation, beautiful rural revitalization, etc., and contributes to creating and forming a good atmosphere of respect for teachers and education.
Country Garden’s concept of respecting teachers and valuing education is also reflected in a broader level. In 2018, Country Garden once exclusively titled China’s first “hardcore knowledge talk show”-“Knowledge is Power”. In this show, APP founder Luo Zhenyu was transformed into a “reporter of knowledge”, connecting life and academics to marriage and love Analyze life problems in many fields such as, family, parent-child, workplace, interpersonal communication, and gather top insights and academic research in psychology, sociology, economics, and even the Internet product industry to provide a knowledge-side problem for these life problems solution.
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Linxia Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School covers an area of 152 mu. After its inauguration, the school plans to enroll 500 students from previous junior high schools this year, and exempt students from poor families from all fees to help them master employment skills and achieve “one person becoming a talent.” The whole family gets rid of poverty”. At the same time, it will start enrollment in Linxia and even the whole province of Gansu, and plan to enroll 2,000 students in three years. This year, the school opened 6 majors for the first time, including construction engineering, automobile beauty and decoration, property management, urban rail transit operation and management, high-star hotel operation and management, and accounting. In addition, other social personnel with the same level of junior high school who meet the admission requirements can also sign up for admission.
Hai Bo, the inspector of the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office, said that the new growth of labor from poor families receiving vocational education, mastering certain skills, and being able to stabilize employment is an urgent task to achieve stable poverty alleviation and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas. In deeply impoverished areas, nearly half of the children from poor families have not received systematic vocational education and directly entered the low-end labor market. To change the status quo of backward industries in poverty-stricken areas, it is necessary to continuously provide suitable skilled talents. It is hoped that Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School can create more opportunities for poor students.
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Relying on Country Garden Group and its strategic partner Bright Scholar Education Group, the school will build a talent training model of “integration of production and education, and joint education of schools and enterprises”. Among them, there are 73 faculty members, 42 teachers, and 21 “dual-professional” teachers with both corporate work experience and teaching experience, accounting for 50% of the total number of teachers. They can cultivate practical experience while guiding students’ theoretical knowledge.
Li Jing, Vice President of Country Garden Group and Director of the Precision Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization Office, said that Country Garden Group and Guoqiang Charity Foundation will continue to support Linxia Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School under the guidance of the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office, the Guangdong Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and Gansu governments at all levels. School running, upholding the concept of “pure charity, all free”, exempt all fees for students from poor families.
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Country Garden Group attaches great importance to the fundamental role of education for poverty alleviation in promoting poverty alleviation and preventing return to poverty. It has changed the destiny of countless poor students and their families by establishing free schools, setting up educational aid funds, and training for rural teachers. Founded 3 charity schools, namely Guohua Memorial Middle School, Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College, and Linxia Guoqiang Vocational and Technical School. Among them, Guangdong Country Garden Vocational College officially enrolled students in 2014. The total investment currently exceeds 700 million yuan. It has recruited 2,476 students, including 2,089 students from poor families. The employment rate of graduates has reached 100% for four consecutive years. In addition, the college has provided 14626 rural laborers with systematic vocational skills training for free, so that they can become skilled industrial workers.
Up to now, Country Garden Group and Guoqiang Charity Foundation have donated a total of over 6.7 billion yuan to the whole society. The nationwide assistance involves 16 provinces and 57 counties, paired assistance to 337,000 poor people in 9 provinces and 14 counties across the country, and has helped 13 impoverished counties. Over 318,000 people got rid of poverty.
