According to incomplete statistics, since 1982 to the present, more than 600 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots have donated more than 2,000 projects to the city, equivalent to more than 1.2 billion yuan.
From the point of view of the content of the donation, Ningbo Gang donation focus on education, health care, public welfare and culture and sports and other social causes. Among them, education accounted for more than seventy percent of the total donations.
Zhenhai, everywhere there are Ningbo gang donation program marks. Zhongxing Middle School, Longsai Middle School, Zhaolong Elementary School, Yifu Elementary School, Zhuangshi Elementary School, Ren'ai Middle School, Zhanghexiang Elementary School, Zhenhai Middle School, Vocational Education Center and so on, are all donated by the Ningbo gang to build, or donations to set up scholarships, scholarship funds.
Ningbo help in the donation of hometown construction at the same time, but also in the hometown of enterprises. At present, there are 3,000 three-funded enterprises in Ningbo, 70% of which are directly invested by the Ningbo Gang or introduced by the Ningbo Gang to build foreign capital. They have made important contributions to the local economic development.
So far, there have been 28 overseas Ningbo people have been awarded the title of Zhejiang Province, the model of love for their hometowns, and 69 were awarded the title of honorary citizens of Ningbo, of which there are 55 Hong Kong and Macao members of the CPPCC at the provincial, municipal and county levels.
Ningbo Gang people, not only enthusiastic donations to the construction of their hometowns, but also donations to China. According to incomplete statistics, ningbo gang donation in the country has amounted to more than 5.5 billion yuan, benefiting 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Among them, more than 80 percent donated to education.
Shaw Yat-fu, Pao Yukang, Wang Kuancheng, Chen Tinghua and Zhao Anzhong are a few representative figures of the Ningbo Gang whose donations have attracted the world's attention.
Shaw: the first person in China to donate money to education
According to the latest data provided by the Ministry of Education, Shaw has donated more than 400 projects to education in China since 1985 to 2003, including universities, primary and secondary schools, teacher training schools, vocational and technical schools*** across all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of the country, with a total of 3.15 billion Hong Kong dollars in grants.
Shaw loved his motherland and cared for his hometown. His donations in Ningbo exceeded RMB 40 million, helping to build projects including the library and teaching building of Ningbo University West, the Vocational Education Center and the Shaw Shaw School of the Arts and Early Childhood Teacher Training in Ningbo, the Shaw Vocational Senior High School, the Zhongxing Middle School, the Shaw Theatre, and the Kang Leyuan Park in his ancestral home.
Among the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan compatriots and overseas compatriots who have made donations to support education in the Mainland, Mr. Run Run Shaw's donations have been the largest in number, the most extensive in number of projects, and have lasted for a long period of time, and he has been rightly called the "No. 1 person in China who donates to the cause of education". This is worthy of all Ningbo people proud.