Jimu News Reporter She Jun
Correspondent Hu Bin
The stars are shining, gathering overseas Chinese and gathering the hearts of overseas Chinese. Full of love, conveying the power of charity to the overseas Chinese community. On January 25, the 2024 Hubei "Overseas Chinese Love Night" charity dinner event was held in Han. The "Hubei Provincial Charity Federation Overseas Chinese Federation Public Welfare Fund" was inaugurated. The auction of 22 well-known paintings and calligraphy raised more than one million yuan as the first payment of the fund, which will be used to help overseas Chinese in need.
The Hubei Provincial Charity Federation and the Overseas Chinese Federation Charity Fund were unveiled
This is a grand event for the overseas Chinese community in Hubei. On that day, more than 500 people including the United Front Work Department of the Hubei Provincial Committee, the Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation, the Provincial Charity Federation and people from the overseas Chinese community participated in the event. Xia Qingling, deputy director of the Wuhan Chu Theater and a national first-class actor, opera performing artist Ma Yaqin, and Chinese young tenor singer Cao Yiheng performed wonderful repertoire live to sing for love.
art joins hands with charity to show great love and great beauty.
More than 500 people attended the hubei overseas Chinese community event
That night, the Hubei Overseas Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Institute organized a calligraphy and painting charity sale. The calligraphy treasures donated by well-known calligraphers and painters such as Zhou Shaohua, Lu Muxun, and Meng Qingxing were bid by caring people. The charity dinner raised a total of more than 1 million yuan, which was also the first donation raised by the Hubei Provincial Charity Federation and the Overseas Chinese Federation Charity Fund.
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pays tribute to the philanthropic role models and stirs up the power for good.
Shi Zheng, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Hubei Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation, said that giving back to society is a glorious tradition of the overseas Chinese community in Hubei. The Hubei Charity Federation Overseas Chinese Federation Public Welfare Fund will gather the forces of caring overseas Chinese enterprises and caring overseas Chinese people, focusing on education and people's livelihood. In the fields of education, culture, technological innovation and entrepreneurship among the overseas Chinese community, we carry out public welfare activities such as supporting areas with weak education, encouraging scientific and technological innovation, and assisting rural revitalization through student assistance, medical assistance, and poverty relief, and contribute to Hubei's public welfare undertakings.
This event is hosted by the Hubei Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and the Hubei Charity Federation, and organized by Hubei Overseas Chinese International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. According to the organizer, Hubei's "Overseas Chinese Love Night" aims to build a platform of love, bring together overseas Chinese to gather overseas Chinese hearts, and convey the warm power of the overseas Chinese community in Hubei through the deep integration of charity culture and overseas Chinese culture.
(Source: Jimu News)
