Panda Pack Project Appeared in the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation——Thematic Forum on People-to-People Connectivity
The Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation Thematic Forum on People-to-People Connectivity was held in Beijing on October 18th. Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress participated and delivered keynote speeches. The thematic forum was hosted by the International Department, Central Committee of CPC. More than 300 persons participated in the conference, including politicians, experts and scholars, representatives of non-governmental organizations and representatives of relevant domestic departments.
In
the forum through the live performance of stage play “For the Colorful Dreams
of Millions of Kids”, China Foundation for Rural Development and Alibaba
Philanthropy described how the Panda Pack project team represented by Ms. Zou
Zhiqiang overcame various difficulties in work and life and brought panda packs
to Nepalese children to help them realize the colorful dreams. Participants strongly
empathized with the story and there were several rounds of warm applause at the
scene.
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Host of forum introduced the
stage play “For the Colorful Dreams of Millions of Kids” |
Ms. Zou Zhiqiang, Director of the
Nepal Office of China Rural Development Foundation told the story of panda
pack emotionally |
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Picture
of stage play scene |
Played the video of Panda Pack
Project in forum |
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Zheng Wenkai, Chairman of China
Foundation for Rural Development, and Ms. Roman Tasfaye, former First Lady of
Ethiopia, took a group photo at the scene |
Up
to September in 2023, under the support of Alibaba Philanthropy and millions of
business owners on Alibaba E-commerce Platform, Panda Pack Project has been
implemented in 14 countries, including Myanmar, Nepal, Ethiopia, Cambodia,
Laos, Pakistan, Namibia, Uganda, Burundi, Philippines, Chad, Mongolia, Zimbabwe
and South Sudan, benefiting more than 1.2 million persons. It is one of the
biggest public welfare projects overseas conducted by Chinese social
organizations. The project was awarded Best Poverty Reduction Case in the Second
Call of Global Solicitation on Best Poverty Reduction Practices and collected
into the Global Poverty Reduction Online Knowledge Sharing Database.
Since
the launch of Panda Pack Project five years ago, it has been the iconic project
during the past ten years when Chinese social organizations took part in the construction
of Belt and Road. According to “Presidential Statement of the Third Belt and
Road Forum for International Cooperation” released on October 18, Panda Pack
Project was selected into “Appendix II: List of practical cooperation projects
of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation”. When presently
interviewed by the reporter of “China Community Newspaper” and the reporter of “China
Social Organization” magazine, principle of Civil Affairs Ministry also
mentioned and introduced the impact of Panda Pack Project on the construction
of Belt and Road.
China
Community Newspaper
Panda Pack Project as the relevant case of Chinese social organizations taking part in the construction of Belt and Road – “Panda Pack from the Panda Country”
Bainza
Fadek, a student in seventh grade at Busaala Primary School in Mayugai
District, eastern Uganda, Africa, could never have dreamed of it that one day
he would receive a gift from China – panda pack.
On
the day of project launching, China Foundation for Rural Development came to a rough
bungalow in Mayugai district with panda packs. Bainza and his classmates all
received the packs. There were 22 kinds of study and daily necessities in each
pack. Kids were very happy to find that there were various goods in the new
schoolbag, including pencils, pencil case, watercolor pens, erasers, notebooks,
coloring books, lunch box, water bottle, raincoat and so on. Most of them used
plastic bags as schoolbags before. They could hardly see long pencils and even
never used watercolor pens.
The pack Bainza
received comes from the Panda Pack Project jointly initiated by China
Foundation for Rural Development and Alibaba Philanthropy. All the money is
donated by millions of business owners on Alibaba E-commerce Platform, adding
up to hundreds of millions of donations. Wherever the staffs in the project go,
they would explain where the donations are from. Although children are hard to
understand the relation in it, they all know that panda packs come from the panda
country – China.
As the national treasure
of China, panda is popular among the world, naturally becoming the symbol of
Chinese culture. The pack’s outlook adopts the image of panda. Kids are
extremely fond of the panda design on schoolbags and have a deeper impression
of China’s broadness, kindness and friendliness.
Panda Pack Project
exactly gives the most needed study and daily items to primary school students
in “Belt and Road” co-construction countries and hopes that this gift from the
panda country could plant the seeds of love and friendship in the hearts of
children.