We Are Going to Promote Rich Education in the Poor Localities

At Shiyan municipality, all the six counties and municipal localities outside the urban center belong to national- and provincial-level poor counties and cities. Nonetheless, the people here are not resigned to their poverty; instead, they have put great effort into popularizing nine years of compulsory education (NYCE) and have enhanced the quality of human resources as a fundamental way to put people on the road to wealth and well-being. They are desperately short of funds, yet they put all they have into supporting education. The masses here say: "Even those of us who wear nothing but straw sandals on our feet need to contribute resources to education. Our ancestors are poor but our descendants need not be. Those who have leather shoes to wear must also contribute so that our descendants will be better off than their ancestors."