The Origin of Project Hope

The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the China Youth Development Foundation launched a public welfare undertaking in 1989 to help out-of-school children in poverty-stricken areas. Its purpose is to establish Hope Primary School, help children in poor areas to return to school and improve the conditions for running schools in rural areas. Aid has changed the fate of a large number of out-of-school children, improved the conditions for running schools in poor areas, aroused the awareness of the whole society to attach importance to education and promoted the development of basic education; It has carried forward the fine tradition of helping the poor and promoted the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

Established on 1989 10.30, China youth foundation held a press conference on "helping out-of-school teenagers in poverty-stricken areas".