Li Zhongxin is quite clear about such a thing. At least he can know what help is needed in the poor mountainous areas. Education must be arrested. If there is no education and just blindly giving money, it will have no meaning at all.

Although the country implemented a nine-year compulsory education system at this time, in many places in remote mountainous areas, such a system was implemented on the contrary, but it was difficult to achieve full-scale education.

Children in the mountains live in a relatively scattered manner. If some children want to go to school, they need to walk more than ten miles of mountain road to get from home to school.

These ten miles of roads take a long time, and not all children can get up before dawn and start walking to school to school. Moreover, they have no time to go to school when they are farming or other times, and their families need them to help them work at home.

This refers to the fact that the family has the conditions to allow their children to study in school, and a large number of parents in the family basically do not consider their children's learning, especially for girls at this time. According to their ideas, girls will get married sooner or later, which is considered a loss of money. After the increase, studying without learning has no value. Helping their family work at home is the most important thing.

There are many such families, and there are many students who have no books to read or who are forced to drop out of school by parents in the second and third grades of elementary school. These are all children who need help and need education.

They will study for a shorter time and do the most work, so they need to take their younger brothers and sisters to live with them at home.

At this time, all the adults at home have to work in the fields, otherwise they will not have any harvest when they get harvest.

Boys in such a family are relatively better. Most people prefer boys over girls. They think that boys are a good laborer when they grow up, and they are also much more places in the countryside than girls.

This is basically the case in rural areas in this era. If you give birth to a boy and give birth to a girl, you only give birth to a half acre of land. The gap is quite large. This matter is related to the fact that people receive less education and the failure of some national policies to implement them well.

At this time, people were not like later generations, with a variety of spare time. After they finished their work and went home, they basically had nothing to do, and they just created exercise for their children.

The more remote the area is, the more this happens. They have nothing else to do, nor do they have contraceptive measures. Moreover, they want to have more children. According to some people's ideas, it is a good thing to have more children. The more boys there are, the better. If there is no national family planning, they will have more and more children.

With too many children, it is naturally difficult to study. If they don’t have time to take care of younger children, they have to take care of older children.

At this time, not only the children in the mountainous areas, but also the teachers in the school. They need to work on their own when farming or harvesting autumn, so that they can ensure their most basic life. It can be said that the students in the poor mountainous areas are also very hard.

Moreover, most of the teachers in these places are rural teachers who do not have much education and do not have teacher qualification certificates. They do not have the welfare benefits of those teachers in big cities, and only have this meager salary every month.

Since the reform and opening up, the country has attached great importance to education, but poor areas like this are still unattainable, both in teaching and all kinds of things.

It is precisely because of this situation that the country has carried out the Hope Project at this time, hoping that with the Hope Project, more children in poor mountainous areas can read and rewrite their destiny through reading.

The Hope Project is a public welfare undertaking initiated by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the China Youth Development Foundation in 1989 to help out the out-of-school children in poor areas.

Its purpose is to build Hope Primary School, to support out-of-school children in poor areas to return to school, and to improve rural school conditions.

Speaking of Hope Project, Li Zhongxin could instantly remember those big eyes. In 1991, seven-year-old Su Mingjuan was a first-year student at Zhangwan Primary School. China Youth Daily photojournalist Xie Hailong went to Jinzhai County to interview and shoot the Hope Project. He traveled to more than a dozen villages and finally came to Zhangwan Primary School and found Su Mingjuan who was in class. His pair of "big eyes that could represent children in poor mountainous areas who were "longing to read" to take his shots.

This picture is a girl holding a pencil head in her hand and looking straight ahead with two big eyes looking straight ahead and eager to learn. After the photo titled "I want to go to school", it was quickly reprinted by major domestic newspapers and magazines, becoming a propaganda symbol of China's Hope Project. Su Mingjuan's big eyes that long to read also became an image representative of the Hope Project.

Like "big eyes", people also have "big snot" and "little bald head".

These three young people are the owners of the three iconic photos of the Hope Project: "Big Eyes" Su Mingjuan, "Big Snot" Hu Shanhui, and "Little Bald" Zhang Tianyi. They aroused the craze of donating funds to support students across the country with their eyes and their own experiences.

"Big Eyes" Su Mingjuan is a well-known iconic photo of Hope Project. However, "Big Snot" almost replaced "Big Eyes" and became an iconic photo of Hope Project.

"Big Nose" is one of the most frequently used photos of Hope Project. All those who see the photos will think of "Big Nose" and shouting at the top of their lungs: "I want to go to school!"

In 1992, when the famous photographer Xie Hailong used a camera to investigate the situation of rural education, he saw through the window paper that the children were reading the words "mountain, stone, water, fire". "Big Snot" was read very hard, and he frowned and rancid.

The image of "big snot" was very popular after it was published, and almost replaced "big eyes" as a iconic photo of Hope Project. Later, because she thought girls could be more touching, Su Mingjuan was chosen. At that time, Hope Project began to promote on a large scale, and "big snot", "big eyes" and "little bald head" became household names.
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