A Thank-you Letter from Northwest China: A Story of a Student in Great Need Supported by Sanya Palm Springs2008-02-20
Recently, Sanya Springs and Sanya Youth League committee and municipal Party committee receive a thank-you letter thick in feeling from Northwest University for Nationalities. The writer of this letter is Fu Fucheng, a freshman of this university. He writes: “Dear Sanya Palm Springs Holdings Co., Ltd., and Sanya Youth League committee and municipal Party committee: Because of your great concern and kindness, I am able to be a college student. Now, I am a person full of happiness and hope, and also grateful to your help…”
Fu Fucheng, 19, was born to a common rural family in Tianya Town. His father died of disease when he attended high school, leaving Fu Fucheng, other three children who were all attending school and his wife behind. The death of Fu’s father was a double blow to the unfortunate family. But Fu, a boy of Li nationality, was never overcome by the tragedy. He finished his high school with good records through diligence and hardworking. Last year, Fu made a 572 score in the college entrance examination and was admitted by Northwest University for Nationalities, majoring pharmaceutical engineering. However, the fee for the college was an astronomical figure for the Fus, although they had made every effort to collect the fee.
“I am quite grateful to the Chief Executive of Palm Springs Yan Qi. He is a man of kindness, concerning about the students in need. He makes me feel that I am no longer short of help!” Fu would never forget the sunshine morning of Sep. 5th last year. Hearing the tragedy of Fu, Yan Qi and his staff, accompanied by the director of Sanya Youth League committee and municipal Party committee, paid a special visit to Fu’s family. He donated RMB 5,000 to the unfortunate boy. Fu’s dream of going to the college was no longer a dream never can be realized.
It has been generations for my family and my ancestors to live a peasant life with only several acres of land to survive. We have been having a hard life because of the backward technology and draught”, Fu tells us through the telephone. It was the year when he just graduated from preliminary school that he had to give up the chance to go to the secondary school for a whole year in order to save money for his badly ill father. But he never gave up the hope of returning to the school. He turned the possibility into reality by being admitted to the Class for Nationalities of Sanya No.1 Middle School in Sep, 2001. 3 years later, he had the chance to go to high school, but he was shaken by the fee of more than RMB 1, 000. He had planed to quit, because his father was in great condition and needed money for the disease. This time, Sanya Youth League committee and municipal Party committee heard Fu’s news and decided to help him by offering free education in Haikou Haitian High School. Fu says, he will transform the gratefulness into his power of study and self improvement. He is intended to be a student of diligence and will return the kindness to his parents, the society and people who have helped him by acquiring an outstanding expertise.
“We are definitely the hardcore supporter of the call from Sanya government that we will leave no children behind”, Yan Qi tells us, charity activity of Palm Springs will never be in a still. Last August, Palm Springs donated RMB 500,000 when they participated in a charity called “Campaign Against Poverty: Financial Aid to Students in Need”, started by Sanyan Government. (Reporter: Huang Shifeng and Chen Xiaowei)