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In the past two years, the city has seen the emergence of a number of caring people who are passionate about Project Hope, and Mr. Liu is one of them. Cui Zhikui, director of the city's Project Hope office, recalled the first time this Mr. Liu came to make a donation: "On April 15, 2004, Mr. Liu appeared for the first time at the Project Hope office of the Youth League Municipal Committee to make a donation of 2,000 yuan, proposing that he would like to help impoverished children go to school and study. He was probably in his 30s, plainly dressed, with a kindly attitude, and didn't talk much. When we asked to leave his name and address and other contact information, he smiled and declined, leaving only the title of Mr. Liu."
After the recommendation of the Youth League Municipal Committee, Song Jiayi of Fengning's Huangqi Town Central Primary School became the first child sponsored by Mr. Liu.
Since then, Mr. Liu has made 13 donations: 23,000 yuan in 2004, 24,000 yuan in 2005, and 9,000 yuan in 2006,*** sponsoring nine college students, three high school students, four junior high school students, and 16 primary school students.
"Every time Mr. Liu is to come and go in a hurry, not willing to disclose more of their own information, the Mission Municipal Committee many times want to report through the media his touching deeds, but also had been politely declined by him. Mr. Liu is currently the largest individual donation, and he does good deeds without leaving his name of the spirit is very moved us." Director Cui told reporters.
Chengde County, Xu Jingjing, Xu Shuo siblings is Mr. Liu most funded poor children. 2 years, Mr. Liu has funded the siblings to school costs 18,000 yuan. 2003, siblings of the father due to a car accident left the world, so that this is not a rich family to add insult to injury, the mother in the hotel part-time job, four to five hundred yuan per month income to maintain a normal life has been stretched, and then for two children to go to school is even more difficult. It is even more difficult to pay for the two children to go to school. "If it wasn't for Mr. Liu's financial support, the two of us would have dropped out of school." Xu Jingjing's gratitude to Mr. Liu was overwhelming. Because there is no Mr. Liu's contact information, in August 2004, Xu Jingjing had written a letter to Mr. Liu, through the Youth League Municipal Committee forwarded to Mr. Liu, his financial support to express gratitude, and to report on their own learning, but Mr. Liu did not reply to the letter, but also refused to Xu Jingjing's request for a meeting. Currently, Xu Jingjing has graduated from Baiqiu'en Medical College and is looking for a job. "I hope I can thank Mr. Liu in person through another form or method after I find a job."
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Cong Fei, formerly known as Zhang Chong, was born in October 1969 in Zhuangtai Town, Dawa County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province. He dropped out of school in the second year, then entered a bank as a cashier, paid admission to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, graduated in 1992 to Guangzhou, and two years later came to Shenzhen. in August 1994, he was invited to participate in a back-to-school charity show for out-of-school children in Chongqing, and began 11 years of charitable sponsorships. Up to now, she has sponsored 178 poor children in Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and other poor mountainous areas. In April 2005, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and entered Shenzhen People's Hospital for treatment. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in April 2005 and entered the Shenzhen People's Hospital for treatment. on May 27, he joined the Chinese ****anufacturing party in his hospital bed.
Reporter Zhou Yong Shenzhen
Sunlight from the window slanting in, shining on the white walls of the ward, leaving dappled shadows. A man in a green striped hospital gown sits quietly on the bed, reading a book.
This is a ward in the oncology department of Shenzhen People's Hospital, where he was diagnosed with stomach cancer two months ago.
While undergoing surgery, doctors found that the tumor in his stomach had adhered to his pancreas. "The stomach cancer has spread ...... "After an emergency consultation, doctors decided to stitch up the wound immediately.
Just after his third course of chemotherapy, his hair fell out and the disease had pressed on his vocal cords, making his voice hoarse and painful.
He was once a little-known actor in Shenzhen. And now, his name is spreading on a wider scale - according to media reports, since 1994, he has been sponsoring poor children in impoverished mountainous areas, and the number of children sponsored by him has reached 178, with a cumulative donation of 3 million yuan.
Now, he is admired by the people of Shenzhen, and since he has dissipated his family's wealth by sponsoring the children, people have made donations to him, and the hospital has decided to waive the treatment fee.
The cell phone rang, is the most let him helpless reminder of the call, "you did not say that you will provide my child to the university graduation? He's still in middle school and you won't pay? Aren't you screwing people over?"
"I've been sick for months without performing, so I can't pay for now." "When will the illness be cured?"
The patient couldn't answer this question either, because the doctor hadn't talked to him about being discharged since he was admitted to the hospital.
"I sent myself up the ladder, and when I went up, I couldn't get down, so I really couldn't afford to go further up but there was no way down." That's how he describes his act of helping students.
Love to sing "Da Chong"
Cong Fei, born in October 1969 in Zhuangtai Town, Dawa County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province, 11 years ago, he graduated from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music to the south to make a living, 11 years later, lying on a hospital bed in Shenzhen, he hoped to go back to the rural areas of the northeast.
Now, the village folks still remember the love of singing "Da Chong" (Cong Fei nickname). "Sometimes when I come home, I see our family's kang full of people, Da Chong holding a broomstick as a microphone to sing," recalled Li Caifeng, Cong Fei's mother. "Cong Fei loved to sing since he was a child, but unlike his father, who loved to sing northeastern duet, he learned the interludes of TV serials. He could memorize Huo Yuanjia and Shanghai Tang after hearing them once or twice, and everyone said he sang them well. "
For this hobby of Cong Fei, the old couple did not care too much, "We hope he can engage in something else, find a formal job." After a few weeks, Cong Fei became a bank teller, and counting money pointing "special slippery".
But Congfei's interest was still in singing, and he went on to attend the Shenyang Conservatory of Music.
Now that his son is spending his family's money to support underprivileged children, his mother is a bit miffed, but accepts it. Years ago, she herself adopted an orphan - a sister two years older than Congfei. "In fact, his father is also like this, the old beggars to the home to lead,"
Li Caifeng said, sometimes as soon as she came home to see a yard full of dirty mats, clothes drying, a house, "OMG, all beggars."
Cong Fei since childhood and from time to time to "visit" the beggars to deal with, "the child and a Shandong beggar relationship is particularly good." Li Caifeng said, her husband not only time and time again to lead the beggars home, but also let his son to give them tea and water, beggars come home to pay tribute to the New Year on New Year's Day, "Dachong will be on hand to the dumplings, snacks and take the initiative to give people."
Bridge hole out of the singer
In 1994, Cong Fei graduated from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and came to Guangzhou.
He once described the experience to a friend as "sleeping in a bridge hole and eating people's leftover boxed lunches," which made Li Cifeng very distressed, "I only heard about it later, and Congfei didn't contact his family for the first six months after he first came to Guangzhou.
I think the child, afraid of what happened. "Li Caifeng said she was often out of her mind while sweeping the floor with a broom.
According to one of Congfei's friends surnamed Zuo, in 1996, Congfei was in Guangzhou, a man found that Congfei had talent in acting, and took Congfei to engage in performances to make money. They made a lot of money at a big show in Shenzhen that year, but the man took the money and slipped away. Cong Fei was penniless, and his life fell back into a predicament. The friend said Congfei had walked back to the city on foot from Shenzhen's Bao'an Airport, a distance that would have taken about an hour by car. "But Congfei said he didn't hate the man at all," because he thought he had given him his first chance to perform.
And according to Congfei's friends, the brothers Li Xiong, Congfei met them both shortly after he arrived in Shenzhen. "At that time he was very dark and thin, with high cheekbones." The image wasn't great, but the young man's exceptional acting ability and singing talent surprised the two of them, and they immediately decided to join forces with him to put on a show. Li Xiong said that at a salon run by the Grand Theater, they helped Cong Fei open a solo show. "He sang very well," since then, Cong Fei began to perform in and out of various opera houses. From earning 80 yuan for a song, he gradually rose to several hundred yuan. At that time, Congfei had already begun to imitate the demeanor of celebrities, often making the audience laugh, and the atmosphere was so good that Congfei's shows were often put into the second half of the finale.
Li Xiong said that gradually, some people began to pay attention to Cong Fei, and invited him to perform. Over time he became famous.
Snowballing donations
Cong Fei's fame often led to performance opportunities, but friends realized that Cong Fei, who shouldn't have been short of money, always seemed shy. "I later realized that he donated all his money to children in the mountains." One of Congfei's friends said.
Cong Fei's sponsorship of underprivileged children in the specific start of the year, it has been difficult to prove that a variety of versions of the statement, because of the relationship between Cong Fei's condition, but also can not be verified to his own, but is more recognized is that in 1994, Cong Fei participated in Chongqing for the return of out-of-school children to the school of the charity charity show that changed his life.
There were hundreds of children in the audience who had dropped out of school because of poverty, and Cong Fei didn't hesitate to put all the 2,400 yuan he had in cash into a donation box. The host told Cong Fei: "The money you donated will enable 20 children to complete two years of schooling!"
Cong Fei felt at the time that this was something very worthwhile. Since then, he has been constantly sponsoring out-of-school children in impoverished mountainous areas, and has gone to Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and other impoverished mountainous areas more than 20 times to hold charity performances to raise tuition fees for local out-of-school children.
Li Xiong said Cong Fei had also asked them whether they should sponsor so many children. "We said it's a good thing and we must insist on it," and advised Congfei to try to adopt children from ethnic minorities, "It's best to gather children from all 56 ethnic groups."
According to official sources, the total number of children sponsored by Cong Fei has now reached 178, including children of the Yi, Buyi, Miao, Bai and Qiang ethnic minorities, in addition to Han Chinese.
Cong Fei once explained his motivation for donating in this way, "When I was in the mountainous areas, I was shocked by their poverty, and it was hard for me to see that they couldn't wear clothes or eat, and I was happy when I heard that these children had books to read." He said that his main wish is to let the children have books to read, so that the society will have fewer illiterates and fewer legal illiterates. It is because he fell in love with these simple, honest and hard-working mountain people that his donations grew like a snowball.
"In fact, he is rolling the snowball, unknowingly the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and then slowly began to feel tired, feel a little overwhelmed."
Wife Xing Dan said, "In fact, as long as the people who have gone to the poor mountainous areas of Guizhou to see, will be shocked by the level of poverty there, I also went with him once to understand what he did, everyone will be shocked by the tragic situation there, will lend a helping hand. There's nothing special about Cong Fei, the difference is that he goes over there every year, every year there's a benefit concert, every year he sees new out-of-school children, so every year he's impressed by new people to support."
170,000 yuan in foreign debt
In 2004, Congfei adopted 32 orphans and impoverished students in Zhijin County in Guizhou's Bijie region, bringing the total number of sponsored children to 178.
Xu Xiwen, vice mayor of Guanzhai Township, Zijin County, Guizhou Province, is the contractor of Cong Fei's donations to schools in Guizhou, Xu Xiwen said: "Cong Fei's heart for the poor mountain people, often moved us to tears. There are many units and individuals who come to Guizhou to help the poor and the weak, but no one can reach the realm of complete selflessness like him. He six times to Zhijin County and Anshun City for the poor students to send tuition, leaving not only donated all the tens of thousands of yuan or even more than 100,000 yuan of money and goods, but also to accompany the friends to borrow money to donate, and a few times and even the clothes worn by the body are taken off to donate, winter only wearing a short-sleeved underwear returned to Shenzhen."
"Originally to Cong Fei's strength to sponsor so many children, in fact, there is no big problem." Li Xiong, a friend of Congfei's, said. In some cities, commercial performances, Cong Fei has been a little famous, each performance of the appearance fee can reach 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, more often than not a month's income can be up to more than 100,000 yuan, funding for the children's tuition fees, for the health of the Cong Fei, can be borne completely. But after the SARS outbreak in 2003, Cong Fei's performance opportunities were sharply reduced, and his income became less and less, and his money was tight when he paid his children's tuition.
According to a report in the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region Daily, in order to pay tuition fees for more than 100 children in a timely manner, Cong Fei borrowed 100,000 yuan from friends and relatives and sent it to the children before the start of the school year as scheduled.
Li Xiong said, "Once he borrowed 1,000 yuan from us, but also die to use the video camera to mortgage, to the present this video camera is still in my home."
From the spring of 2004, Cong Fei's stomach often severe pain, but also often spit blood, blood, Cong Fei's mother, Li Caifeng, said the family and friends at that time advised him to hospitalization. But Cong Fei refused, only in the outpatient clinic prescribed some oral medication to maintain. 2004 July, Cong Fei as promised to Guizhou, to the children sent the next semester's tuition. However, a large portion of this tuition was borrowed from his friends again. At that time, Congfei was already carrying a debt of 170,000 yuan.
Li Caifeng said that Congfei even comforted her at that time, saying, "As long as I contact some more commercial performances, it's not difficult to pay back the more than 100,000 yuan." But what I did not expect is that Cong Fei's stomach pain is becoming more and more serious, his voice is also gradually worse than in the past, he was no longer able to rely on singing for the children to earn tuition fees, the debt can not be repaid, has become a heavy burden on his heart.
"Why do you insist on sponsoring children when you can't afford to do so anymore?" Family and friends can't understand this: "Helpers have to live within their means, how can they borrow money to donate to others?" Cong Fei explained to them this way: "I have promised the children to do their best to provide them with until graduation, how can you not keep your word?"
Cong Fei in the eyes of the people
At the same time as donating to poor children in mountainous areas, Cong Fei is also a five-star volunteer of the Shenzhen Federation of Volunteer Workers (SZFVW), with volunteer number 2478. At the end of 1996, Yang Hua met Cong Fei in a "Help the Needy Help the Happy" charity performance held by the Shenzhen Municipal Youth League Committee. Yang Hua felt that Cong Fei was a dedicated, enthusiastic young man with a deep sense of social responsibility, so in early 1997, she asked Cong Fei to join the Federation of Volunteer Organizations and asked him to start recruiting people to create an art troupe of the Federation of Volunteer Organizations, and Cong Fei would be the head of the art troupe. Cong Fei immediately agreed, and then began to organize staff training, after more than half a year to create this amateur art group. Volunteer League Art Troupe in Shenzhen performance response is very strong, more than ten times a year to perform large-scale performances. Many of the audience went there because of Cong Fei's reputation, and after they went there they were all convinced by his charisma.
"In the eyes of these viewers, Cong Fei is a cheerful, dedicated performer who never plays big names and is very kind to the audience." Yang Hua said.
Ms. Feng, who now works for a network company in Shenzhen and is also a member of the Volunteer Federation, met Cong Fei at a benefit performance at the Lianhua North Rehabilitation Station for the Disabled, which hosts events on major holidays such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival every year, and Cong Fei always comes over to participate and has never been absent. He is good at imitating celebrities, and his manner is real and amazing, which is very popular among the disabled people in the rehabilitation station. In Ms. Feng's eyes, Cong Fei is a person who brings too much joy to people around him.
As for Congfei's long-term sponsorship of poor children, Ms. Feng believes that Congfei does not want anything. He sees this kind of behavior as a kind of responsibility of his own, although he is just an ordinary foreign workers, but sponsoring children for a long time, and slowly become a habit.
"He's too serious and sometimes rambles. A few brothers eat together, he always chatter this meal can be exchanged for how many poor children's tuition fees, we all laugh at him." Mr. Zuo, a friend of Cong Fei's, said.
Cong Fei didn't tell anyone he was sponsoring children in poor mountainous areas at first, "We didn't know until later." Mr. Zuo said Cong Fei did not like to make a fuss, so when many people expressed doubts about his behavior, he did not bother to explain and just smiled.
According to the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region Daily, from March 10 to 16, 1998, Cong Fei organized seven successive "Helping the Poor and Weak Cong Fei Benefit Evening Party" in order to subsidize the study of poor children in Shenzhen, and donated all the ticket income of more than 500,000 yuan to the Shenzhen Foundation for the Development of Youth Career; on August 19, 1998, he was attending a business meeting outside the country, and was invited to perform at a charity event. August 19, 1998, is participating in commercial performances in the field of Cong Fei received a phone call from the Shenzhen authorities, asked him if he could participate in the next day held a "love for the disaster area flood relief" large-scale charity performances, Cong Fei immediately put off a number of commercial performances, out of their own pockets to buy air tickets to return to Shenzhen, but also their own performances in Hunan earned 20,000 yuan all donated.
Cong Fei immediately put off several commercial performances and bought a plane ticket out of his own pocket to return to Shenzhen.
After Cong Fei was hospitalized, many of the people who came to visit him were strangers to the public. A citizen surnamed Zhang said: "I thought the publicity reports were too exaggerated, ran over to see realized that the original is true, he is really amazing, is really caring people."
"This is the same as when he was a child to take me home to eat a bowl of dumplings, share a piece of big cake behavior, in fact, the same, there is no big difference," in the eyes of Mr. Zhao, a classmate of Cong Fei when he was a child, Cong Fei's behavior of sponsoring the poor children to study is not incomprehensible. "He is also just an ordinary person, in addition to more love than others, there is nothing special."
Family matters
Cong Fei's home is in a 50- to 60-square-meter house in Xin Gang Hong Garden on Cuizhu Road East in Shenzhen's Luohu District.
The room has a half-wall bookcase full of awards and photos, and a CD rack with some classical music and ethnic songs, "although it's smaller and simpler, it's still very cozy." Wife Xing Dan said.
The pretty 24-year-old stewardess now understands what Cong Fei has done and considers him a responsible man, and has become his second wife.
Cong Fei's first wife, a Burmese, divorced him two years ago, leaving him with his then two-year-old daughter Ruirui.
In fact, at the beginning of their marriage, Xing Dan was not sure what to make of Cong Fei's behavior, and would complain about it. in the summer of 2004, Cong Fei took her to the poverty-stricken mountainous areas of Guizhou's Qiannan province to send clothes and tuition fees to the children he had sponsored. "I was shocked by the poverty of those children's families, who could not afford to eat meat all year round, and had to eat cornmeal mixed with straw. Many of them have only one quilt for five or six people in winter. When I saw those lovely children wrapping their arms around Congfei's neck and shouting father one after another, and the children's parents holding Congfei's hand and weeping silently, at that moment, I truly understood Congfei's dedication."
Xing Dan has since quit her job as a flight attendant to take care of her young daughter, Ruirui, and become a full-time housewife.
Xing Dan said she is now in a good frame of mind. "He wants to do what it is, happy, as for the money this thing, anyway, the family is not to eat, funding on the funding is good, their own well enough to be able to use."
On the social people on her husband's various evaluations, Xing Dan said: "He exceeded his ability to support, in the eyes of the onlookers is very exaggerated, in my opinion, but very natural, his character is so, can not see the suffering of others, but also can not withstand the begging of others, not to mention the children of these impoverished mountainous areas, that is, the ordinary friends, as long as the soft words of the begging, the opening of the mouth to ask him to help, no matter what money is the matter. Whether it is money or things, he will be back to things to solve, do not know how to reject others, is his strength, but also his weakness."
Xing Dan said Cong Fei loves movies, and they go to see the first Hollywood blockbusters every month, almost without fail, but now he hasn't been in a movie theater for a long time because he's sick.
After being hospitalized, Cong Fei had left a three-pronged content of his will to his friends: "Xing Dan married me, has been living in very poor days with me, but also accompanied me on a trek to the poor mountainous areas to donate money to schools, she ate too much for me. Now she is more than four months pregnant, how can she support the child alone? Please work with her to get rid of this child for her future life; I have been running around for many years and have not left any savings for my family, so I am very sorry to my parents and family. After my death, let my parents take Rui Rui back to the Liaoning countryside, where the standard of living is low and easy to get by; I sponsor more than a hundred children, many of them are still elementary school students, if they can not continue to study, waiting for them will be a hopeless future, you must think of more ways to let them continue to study ah ...... "
Shenzhen Special Zone News recorded Xing Dan's reaction to Cong Fei's will: Xing Dan was so emotional that she couldn't control herself: "In this world, he has nothing left but this child, how can I get rid of this child for myself? In any case, I have to give birth to him ......"
May you be happy
In his hospital bed, Cong Fei still receives letters from his sons and daughters all over the world every day, and reading and reading letters is his greatest pleasure and enjoyment.
"Dad, I want to tell you something, I have not seen the sea since I was a child, I would like to go to see the sea, when you get well, when I graduate from college, I want to go with you to see the sea. Dad please don't worry, I will study hard and be a useful person to society in the future." These are the words of the letter from Luo Yanyan of Zhijin County, Guizhou Province.
She is in her second year of high school at No. 1 Middle School in Zhijin County.
"Congfei's financial assistance has taught me that God does not treat anyone thinly at the very beginning, and he always gives people the same quality of conserved life, and the key lies in your need for a little bit more worldly happiness, then spiritual pleasure will diminish as appropriate, and vice versa." Hu Shiyi, editor-in-chief of Canglang in Hanshou County, Hunan Province, commented on Cong Fei in this way. Hu Shiyi, who suffers from polio, has received 84,000 yuan in donations from Cong Fei, enabling him to realize his dream of going to college and becoming a writer. He learned that Cong Fei was hospitalized with cancer and made a special trip from Hanshou County to visit him.
On his deathbed, Cong Fei was still thinking of the more than 100 children in the poor mountainous areas, thinking of their semester's tuition fees have not been paid. 17 May, he donated the money to him to cure the money to leave three courses of chemotherapy costs, and took out 20,000 yuan of money piggybacked on the poor mountainous areas of Zijin County, Guizhou Province. He struggled to Guizhou's "children" recorded a paragraph: "Children: Dad can not come to see you in person, but Dad misses you, I hope you can study well, and in the future to become a useful person to society.... ..."
On May 15, the day after Cong Fei's operation, he handed in a party application written a year ago to the leaders concerned who came to visit him: "I'm a free singer without a unit, and I have not handed in my written application to join the party, and now I know that I don't have many days left. Please give it to the party organization, I hope I can become a member of the Chinese ****production party in my lifetime." On the morning of May 27, Cong Fei finally realized his life's ideal and became a member of the Chinese ****anufacturing Party.
June 15, Cong Fei opened a family meeting on his deathbed, to his parents and family put forward two wishes: after the donation of corneas, useful organs for the benefit of others, and will be donated to the hospital to do medical research; refused to accept the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Housing to send him to live in a set of four-room, two-bedroom residence, when and where family members can only be to the community to dedicate and can not be to the community to reach out.
"As long as you are happy, as long as you are happy, as long as you round up a good dream, I will not be hard. As long as you are happy, as long as you are as you wish, as long as you turn around and smile, I am content." Cong Fei gently hummed the song "Wish You Happiness", which he composed the lyrics himself, with a smile on his face.