The 100-year-old standing committee member appeared in Hainan in the first month.
On February 5, Song Ping, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, met with Xu Zhongyuan, founder and president of the Jiangsu COSCO Foundation for Helping the Elderly, in Hainan, and listened to the foundation's work report on donating funds for education.
Song Ping (middle)
Song Ping, who is 100 years old this year, is very concerned about the learning of poor students. The report said he was "clear-headed, sensitive, listened carefully to reports, and constantly asked questions and suggestions."
Song Ping told Xu Zhongyuan that it is a big thing for children from poor families to go to college, and it is necessary to give full play to the strength of the state, society and individuals and do it together. Now that the economy has developed, there are many successful entrepreneurs with social responsibility and love, and it is necessary to attract more successful enterprises and caring people to participate in the team of student assistance.
"Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noted that during the dialogue, Song Ping also gave advice to "retired comrades".
"Comrades who are retired now, if they are healthy, can still do some public welfare work at the age of 65 to 75 or even to 80 years old." They have experience, ability, and wisdom, and can contribute to the cause of poverty alleviation and education. Song Ping said.
So, after Song Ping retired, what kind of poverty alleviation and education work did he do?
"Zheng Shi'er" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noted that as early as September 1994, two years after stepping down as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, he and his wife Chen Shunyao had sponsored three out-of-school children through the Hope Project; in August 1995, Mr. and Mrs. Song Ping sent 1,600 yuan to the Hope Project Office in Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, indicating that they would help four children return to school.
The above-mentioned "Dream Realization Class" to help poor students was established under the initiative of Song Ping.
In February 2012, at the initiative of Song Ping, Xu Zhongyuan, who had been a librarian of Mao Zedong, initiated the establishment of the COSCO Education Aid foundation, Song Ping clarified the direction of donating funds for the foundation, hoping to make people pay attention to education and poverty alleviation through the "Dream Class", and in September 2013, he inscribed the name of the class for the "Dream Class".
Jin Yong, deputy secretary general of the foundation, once introduced that when he inscribed the title of the "Dream Realization Class", Song Ping wrote it 3 times and finally chose a version.
Since then, the foundation has donated nearly 20 million yuan to set up a "dream realization class" in more than ten middle schools across the country, and more than 1,000 children with special difficulties in families have received financial support and the opportunity to go to school.
On June 12, 2014, Song Ping, then 97 years old, once took a crutch and participated in a "Dream Fulfillment" charity education activity.
On the morning of the same day, Song Ping wore a white shirt, black cloth shoes and walked on crutches to attend the activity to help poor out-of-school children. "Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) noted that this is the first time that Song Ping appeared in public news reports after the 18th Party Congress.
At the event, Song Ping encouraged the organizers of charity activities to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, advocate the world, and help more poor children in China realize their dreams. According to reports, about 10 minutes later, the organizers said that due to Song Ping's advanced age, he needed to leave the scene early.
It is worth mentioning that along with Song Ping, zhang quanjing, former director of the Central Organization Department, and Teng Wensheng, former director of the Central Policy Research Office, also attended the event.
In October 2015, Song Ping also met and talked with several "post-90s" volunteer teachers from "Beautiful China" in a courtyard in Beijing's Xicheng District.
During the conversation, Song Ping talked about the importance of rural issues, "China's urban and rural areas are very different, and rural areas are the largest part of China's masses and society", and particularly emphasized that "left-behind children are now a big thing." ”
"Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) found that in addition to participating in charity activities, Song Ping also supported old comrades to participate in the construction of party history.
In June 2013, the launch ceremony and seminar of the large-scale historical document "Diary of the Republic" was held in Beijing. Song Ping wrote the preface to the book and said: "Although people are old, they can still try their best to exert some residual heat. ”
Song Ping wrote in the preface of the inscription, "More than 60 years have passed, I have become an old man who has been slow to act, while our party and republic are always young, and every day there are new things and new creations, which are really changing with each passing day", "Even if it is my own failures and tortuous lessons, scientific summaries, and references, it is also the most valuable wealth." ”
In September 2015, when "Deng Liqun's Self-Description: 1915-1974" was published, Song Ping also wrote a preface to the book and encouraged old comrades to write memoirs and review history.
"A lot of old comrades have memoirs. Time and energy allow, review the experience of moving from adolescence to revolution, struggling under the leadership of the party, summing up a lifetime, enlightening future generations, and also reporting to the party and the people, as some supplements to the history of the party, the military, and the history of the country, it is of great significance. In the opening chapter of the preface, Song Ping wrote.
"Political Affairs" (WeChat ID: gcxxjgzh) Written by / Beijing News reporter Xu Tengfei Proofreader: Guo Liqin