A scholarship presentation ceremony of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force (CAPF) Spring Bud Project was held at the Central Primary School of Baiyun Township in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on September 3.

Song Li, member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), Yang Shengming, deputy director of the CAPF Political Affairs Department, staff members of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), cadres of Guangxi Women's Federation and Liuzhou Municipal People's Government, and CAPF Spring Bud girls attended the ceremony.

Song said that the organization of the ceremony was a concrete action to promote the implementation of the Spring Bud Project — Dream of Future Action.

Song said that the Spring Bud Project has received tremendous support from the CAPF and people from other social sectors and their assistance has helped many girls continue with their studies and become useful individuals to society. She stressed that the CCTF and women's federations should strengthen responsibilities, carry out children's charity work in accordance with laws and regulations, deliver tangible results in the implementation of relevant public welfare programs, and ensure children to grow up healthily.

Yang said that the CAPF officers and soldiers have firmly adhered to the fundamental principle of serving the people wholeheartedly, and have taken it as their obligation to ensure children's healthy growth, promote rural revitalization and carry out the strategy for invigorating the country through science and education.

Yang noted the Spring Bud Project is a happy, sunshine and sustainable undertaking and it has brought a great sense of happiness and pride, adding that the CAPF will continue with its assistance to the project and help more Spring Bud girls lead a fulfilling life.

During the ceremony, the CAPF donated 2.12 million yuan (US $298,592) to Guangxi Women's Federation, which will be used to fund girls' education in Guangxi. The federation presented a banner of gratitude to the CAPF and the CCTF respectively.

Representatives of the CAPF officers and soldiers and the Spring Bud girls gave their speeches as well.

After the ceremony, participants conducted an investigation tour over the employment and entrepreneurship of local Spring Bud girls and the participation of local CAPF officers and soldiers in the public welfare initiative and visited the families of the Spring Bud girls in Sanjiang, another county in Guangxi.

Spring Bud Project was launched by the CCTF under the leadership of the ACWF in 1989 to improve the education of girls from in-need families. In September 2023, the project won the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education.

Since 1997, the CAPF has raised donations of 131 million yuan (US $18.45 million) for the project, assisted more than 27,000 girls in the completion of their academic studies, provided more than 60,000 girls with safety and health education training courses, built 13 CAPF Spring Bud schools, 72 children's happy homes, as well as 12 multimedia classrooms and libraries, and also helped more than 20,000 infants and children with anemia improve their nutritional status.

In 2023, the CAPF Spring Bud Project was conferred with the 12th China Charity Award. This year, the CAPF has donated 10 million yuan (US $1.41 million) to help girls continue with their academic studies, engage in social activities, and receive safety and health education training.

(Source: CCTF/Women of China)

Editor: Wang Shasha