<strong>China: Hongyun Library Enters School in North China</strong>

Source from:  HongyunHonghe Group 06/24/2013

Hongyun Library – a large-scale public interest program jointly sponsored by China Youth Daily newspaper and HongyunHonghe Tobacco Group – entered Donggang Primary School in Taiyuan City of north China's Shanxi Province on the morning of June 14, in its first stop for the year 2013.

At the same time, young volunteers from Shanxi Kunming Tobacco Co., Ltd. of HongyunHonghe committed themselves to regularly providing service for the school's students from poverty-striven families of migrant workers in a one-on-one aid project, and established a system of long-term assistance and support to the school by volunteers on a rotational basis.

The large-scale public interest program of Hongyun Library has been run for the past six consecutive years, and has entered its seventh year. By the end of 2012, 600 primary and high schools in poverty-stricken rural areas in 29 Chinese provinces and provincial-level regions had each established a Hongyun Library.

So far, HongyunHonghe Tobacco Group – the largest Chinese tobacco manufacturer based in southwest China's tobacco-producing Yunnan Province – has donated 230,000 books valued at more than 6 million yuan (967,000 U.S. dollars) to the Hongyun Library program. Besides, the Hongyun Library program has won extensive care and support from society. Enditem