# Project Hope

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'''Project Hope''' (希望工程; ''Xiwang gongcheng'') is a [Chinese](/source/People's_Republic_of_China) public service project organized by the [China Youth Development Foundation](/source/China_Youth_Development_Foundation) (CYDF) and the [Communist Youth League](/source/Communist_Youth_League) (CYL) Central Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/poverty/95783.htm|title=Project Hope|website=China Through a Lens}}</ref> Started in 1989, it aims to bring schools into poverty-stricken rural areas of [China](/source/China), to help children whose families are too poor to afford complete elementary school education.<ref name=":03" />{{Rp|page=19}} Through Project Hope, the CYDF has also sought to improve educational facilities and improve teaching quality in poorer regions.

== Achievements ==
As of 2021, Project Hope has raised approximately 20 billion RMB in donations, supported more than 6 million students with financial aid, and built more than 20,000 primary schools.<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Doyon |first=Jérôme |url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/xs55mf617 |title=Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China |publisher=[University of Michigan Press](/source/University_of_Michigan_Press) |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-472-90294-1 |pages= |doi=10.3998/mpub.12291596}}</ref>{{Rp|page=19}}

Some 80 percent of the Hope Project primary schools and students aided by the project are located in China's middle and western regions, which are less developed.<ref>Liu, Fei (2004). ''15 years of Project Hope'' (希望工程15年).</ref>

== Influences ==
According to a report by National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development, 93.9 percent of residents in 29 [provincial capital cities](/source/List_of_capitals_in_China) aged above 16 have heard of Project Hope, and 63.5 percent have contributed to it in various ways.<ref name=":0">Xu, Yongguang. 1999. ''How is Contribute Money Spent—Assessment Report of Hope Project Results'' (捐款是怎样花的希望工程效益评估报告). Zhejiang Renmin Publisher.</ref> The report drew the conclusion that Project Hope has become the largest and most influential non-governmental welfare project in China.<ref name=":0" />

==Tobacco sponsorship controversy==
In 2011 [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) reported that Project Hope accepts [sponsorship](/source/sponsorship) from [China Tobacco](/source/China_Tobacco) and allows schools to be named after [cigarette](/source/cigarette) brands, carry prominent pro-tobacco advertising, [vend](/source/vending_machine) cigarette-shaped [candy](/source/candy) and sell individually-wrapped cigarettes outside school gates, in an attempt to create new [smoking](/source/smoking) [addicts](/source/addiction) to replace those [dying of smoking-related diseases](/source/Health_effects_of_tobacco), without parents being aware of the dangers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese primary schools sponsored by tobacco firms|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|author=Malcolm Moore and Stephen Adams|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8779180/Chinese-primary-schools-sponsored-by-tobacco-firms.html|date=21 September 2011|accessdate=2 October 2013}} (also [http://www.smh.com.au/world/china-tobacco-funding-primary-schools-20110922-1kn58.html syndicated by the Sydney Morning Herald])</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=And Now Tobacco Companies Are Brainwashing Students At China's Poorest Schools|newspaper=[Business Insider](/source/Business_Insider)|author=Andrew Shen|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-schools-made-of-tobacco-2011-9|date=21 September 2011|accessdate=2 October 2013}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.cydf.org.cn/en Official Homepage]
*[http://english.people.com.cn/200312/11/eng20031211_130207.shtml People's Daily report 2004]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090109044105/http://www.boxun.com/hero/yaoan/3_1.shtml]

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