In Zhanjiang, no one has ever heard of Xu Aizhou. Xu Aizhu is originally from Potou Boli Village, the last century, he started from a small business, from Potou to Chikan, Xiying (Xia Shan), from Zhanjiang to Hong Kong, diligently operating, the development of shipping, real estate, ocean-going trade, to the 40s in Zhanjiang, Hong Kong have property. At the time of liberation, the Xu family had long since moved to Hong Kong. At that time, he had 64 houses with an area of more than 20,000 square meters in Zhanjiang City***, which were managed by the Zhanjiang City Government in the early years of the founding of the PRC. The government has been focusing on the protection of this batch of properties, and in 1962, this batch of properties were all returned to Xu Aizhou. 1966 Xu Aizhou passed away. Xu Aizhou passed away in 1966. He was a lifelong philanthropist who set an example for his children and grandchildren. His second son, Xu Shifen, and grandsons Xu Jinkui, Xu Jinqian, and Xu Jinyi, on behalf of the Xu family, solemnly declared that all rents collected from the "Xu Aizhou Property" (more than 20,000 square meters of housing) in Zhanjiang City, minus all expenses, would be used for public welfare in Zhanjiang City, and that the government of Zhanjiang City was commissioned to set up the "Zhanjiang Xu Aizhou Property" program in 1996. In 1996, the Zhanjiang Municipal Government was entrusted with the formation of the "Zhanjiang Xu Aizhou Property Management Committee" to manage the properties with a view to accumulating more funds to subsidize public welfare causes in Zhanjiang. By the end of 2002, the Association paid taxes to Zhanjiang City, 1.32 million yuan, funded the city's public welfare programs of 3.72 million yuan. Xu Aizhou family love their hometown, love their country. Whenever the people in their hometown encounter difficulties, they will certainly contribute generously to the financial support. 1994 South China suffered a major flood, Zhanjiang City also suffered great losses. Upon hearing the news, they immediately donated HK$2,670,000 to all the affected units in Zhanjiang City.*** In 1996, Zhanjiang City was hit by Typhoon No. 9615, which was a very serious disaster. In order to help stabilize the lives of the people in their hometown, quickly eliminate the effects of the disaster, and resume production, they sent HK$3.5 million to Zhanjiang City District, Potou District, Wuchuan City, and Zhang Yan Memorial High School and other units***.
In order to subsidize the cause of helping the disabled in Zhanjiang City, they donated HK$130,000 in 2001 to Zhanjiang City. Every year in the Spring Festival, they send tens of thousands of dollars earmarked for the comfort of widows and orphans and people living in poverty in the countryside.
They learned that their hometown of Potou part of the people suffering from cataracts are still relatively poor, a moment to raise less than 2,000 yuan of surgical fees and suffer from the pain of blindness, in 2000 to Potou District People's Hospital donated 260,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars), the best ophthalmologists, free of charge for the countryside in the cataract patients to do the operation, so that the 180 more than 90 years of age, the youngest is only 3 years old, the longest time of blindness for 12 years, the longest. This has enabled more than 180 cataract patients, the oldest being 90 years old and the youngest 3 years old, who have been blind for up to 12 years, to regain their sight. Mr. Xu Jinkui and his sisters also traveled thousands of miles back to their hometown to visit the hospitals in person.
The Xu family's enthusiasm for the public good, blessed with the mulberry outlet of the good deeds are numerous. They are also very concerned about the development of Zhanjiang culture, health, education, and for this reason many times generously donate large sums of money to promote the development. They donated HK$1,070,000 to Zhanjiang Children's and Youth Library and Art Training Center, and 1,000,000 yuan and a large number of fitness equipment to Potou District Cultural and Sports Activity Center. They also donated HK$1 million to the Potou District Labor Training Center to improve the center's supporting equipment.
Potou District People's Hospital could only treat common and frequent diseases because of its poor medical equipment. Since 1993, the Hsu family has donated more than RMB 4.6 million to the hospital for the construction of an outpatient building, the purchase of ambulances and the purchase of advanced medical equipment. Now, a building area of 4,200 square meters, spacious and bright, complete departments, more advanced equipment of the national first-class hospitals stand in Potou, Zhanjiang City, one of the network of medical emergency center hospitals. 1997, the Xu family and set aside 10 houses and subsidies of Hong Kong dollars 1 million to the city's first Chinese medicine hospital to build outpatient buildings. The Hsu family attaches particular importance to education in their hometown. 1986, they set aside 11 houses to support the founding of Zhanjiang City, Ai Zhou Vocational Senior High School, and annually subsidize a certain amount of education funds. So far **** funded the school RMB 3.1 million.
Potou Ai Zhou secondary school is the Xu family initiative and funding the construction. 1994 since the cumulative donation of 1.72 million Hong Kong dollars for the school to build a science building, improve the experimental teaching equipment. Now the school has developed into a complete secondary school with 50 classes and more than 3,600 students, and has become a standardized "Zhanjiang first-class school". In order to solve the problem of insufficient school places, they also donated 200,000 yuan to the school through the Zhanjiang Xu Aizhou Property Management Committee.
Mr. Xu Aizhou personally founded the Bo Li Yucai Primary School, through dozens of storms, the school building has been dilapidated. Xu family from 1991 onwards, successive donations of 1.22 million yuan for the school building, teachers' dormitories, so that the school has a brand-new Yucai good situation.
Zhanjiang, the sea of Zhanzhan, nearly a hundred years to educate countless heroes and tycoons, Xu Aizhou is one of the best. Xu Aizhou not forgetting Zhanjiang's nurturing grace, from the 1930s onwards he has often been a good deed to help his hometown to develop public welfare undertakings. Today to Jin Kui, Jin Qian, Jin Yi as the representative of the Xu family to carry forward the ancestral virtues, to donate to the development of public welfare in Zhanjiang as part of the work, nearly a decade of cumulative donations of 21.91 million yuan. Xu family can be described as a spring of repayment to Zhanjiang!