Deeply condolences! On February 14, Zhou Huosheng, a moral model in Jiangsu Province, died of illness at the age of 88.
Zhou Huosheng, born in October 1934, is a member of the Communist Party of China and a retired teacher at the Central Primary School of Qiandeng Town, Kunshan City. He has visited the Dabie Mountains in China 100 times, and has personally donated more than 480,000 yuan. He has also mobilized caring people from all walks of life in Kunshan and surrounding areas to donate more than 12 million yuan in money and materials to the Hope Project in Jinzhai County. Helped 16 Hope Primary Schools in Jinzhai County improve their teaching and ensured that more than 1,300 students successfully completed their studies.
Jiangsu Provincial Civilization Office, Suzhou Municipal Civilization Office, as well as many Jinzhai County, Anhui Province aided students and caring people in Kunshan sent condolences to his family and wished the good man a safe journey!
His monthly salary was only 100 yuan, but he resolutely donated 1,000 yuan.
Zhou Huosheng was born in a peasant family in Qiandeng Town, Kunshan in 1934. He graduated from Kunshan Rural Simple Normal School in 1951 and joined the Party in 1956. In 1993, Zhou Huosheng learned from TV and newspapers that the country's first Hope Primary School - "Hope Primary School in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province" was officially completed and opened. The eyes of the children in the camera who were eager to go to school deeply touched him. In the following year, Zhou Huosheng successively remitted 5,000 yuan, but at that time his monthly salary was only more than 100 yuan.
After visiting Jinzhai, he embarked on the road of book charity
After retiring in 1995, Zhou Huosheng came to Jinzhai County for the first time and saw that there were only two fluorescent lamps for lighting in the local school classrooms. When there were five or six students sitting on the bench, his heart was deeply hurt. What made him even more distressed was that there were many local children who were unable to go to school due to family financial difficulties. He immediately made a promise: "Jinzhai is an old revolutionary area, and these children must not be allowed to miss school."
After 20 Over the years, Zhou Huosheng endured the discomfort caused by premature heart beats and bone spurs in his right leg, dragging his charity books for more than 20 kilometers a day, visiting more than 80 primary and secondary schools in Kunshan, selling more than 150,000 books, and using up 4 bicycles. Brand new tricycle.
"'Project Hope' is my life project. Life is endless and hope is endless." Zhou Huosheng once said this in front of the interview camera. Under his influence and leadership, more caring companies and caring people gathered.
In 2010, the "Kunshan Zhou Huosheng Hope Project Volunteer Association" was established. Thousands of primary and secondary school students, hundreds of social figures, and more than 40 companies have extended a helping hand to the Jinzhai County Hope Project, gathering a huge force of love to build Hope Primary Schools, implement a stable donation plan, and carry out a series of projects. Hand-in-hand learning assistance activities, etc. Zhou Huosheng, volunteers from the Volunteer Association and caring enterprises have donated more than 12 million yuan in materials and materials to the Jinzhai County Hope Project and funded more than 1,300 students.
100 trips to the Dabie Mountains made him a household name in Jinzhai
On May 18, 2018, 86-year-old Zhou Huosheng, with a slight stoop and a staggering walk, once again boarded the bus to Jinzhai, Anhui, with the support of everyone. He went to Dabie Mountain for the 100th time. It takes at least 9 hours to drive from Kunshan to Jinzhai. On the winding and rugged mountain road, the young people feel exhausted, but the 86-year-old man can't hide his excitement. It is completely impossible to tell that he has just been discharged from the hospital. cerebral infarction patients.
In Jinzhai County, Zhou Huosheng is almost a household name. Everyone calls him the old man of hope from Kunshan. When they heard that Old Hope was here again, people from all over the country came here to see him.
He donated generously, but he was stingy with himself.
Teacher Liao Yong from Hope Primary School in Jinzhai County still remembers the first time he met Zhou Huosheng. "He was wearing an old jacket, an old hat, and an old cloth bag."
Liao Yong said, "Every time he comes to Jinzhai, Teacher Zhou carries tens of thousands of yuan in student aid. But does he hate himself? You have to break a penny in half to spend it. "Once, it was already one o'clock in the morning when Zhou Huosheng arrived in Nanxi Town, Jinzhai, Anhui. The cheapest hotel in the town only cost 15 yuan a night, but he couldn't bear to stay at the station. I sat outside the door until dawn. Later, he used the 15 yuan he saved to buy 100 pencils for the children.
"He has been wearing those clothes for at least 10 years." Liao Yong said that Zhou Huosheng was too "picky" with him.
is at the house of Zhou Huosheng, this kind of "picking" for himself is clear at a glance -in the old -fashioned apartment of seven or eighty square meters, there are only a few very humble old -fashioned furniture. The cabinet air conditioner is such a air conditioner, and the old man has never used it because it is too much electricity.
He is a lighthouse that illuminates the dark sea
in 1995. In 1995, the poor student Yan Chun saw Zhou Huosheng for the first time. Zhou Huosheng gave her a double -sided stationery box with a magnetic buckle, and her sister got a grant of 20 yuan.
is now Yan Chun, a teacher of Jindao County Hope Primary School. She said that Zhou Huosheng was like a lighthouse that illuminated the dark sea. "He made the poor children in the mountains feel that he was not in a desperate situation." In 1997,
, Zhang Yufang obtained Nanxi Town No. 1 in the high school entrance examination. Good results, but forced by the poor family, when filling in the volunteer, she intends to choose a secondary school with "university dream". After Zhou Huosheng learned of Zhang Yufang's situation, he ran around in Kunshan. In the end, Tongxin Village, Yushan Town The committee decided to fund Zhang Yufang until she graduated from college.
In 2004, Zhang Yufang University graduated to become a journalist. In the first month of work, in the interview, she met a poor student. When she thought of herself that year and thought of Zhou Huosheng, she suddenly funded the other party 200 yuan, and her monthly salary was only 800 yuan.
"I want to say to Grandpa Zhou," When I grew up, I became you '. "Zhang Yufang told reporters that in recent years, she has been funding to poverty -stricken students," Even my children have been influenced by Grandpa Zhou. Recently A classmate in his class suffered from malignant diseases. He heard that the cost of medical treatment was as high as 2 million. He donated the 200 yuan pocket money he had saved, saying that he would contribute 10,000 to the classmates' to cure the disease. Zhou Zhigang, the son of
Zhou Huosheng, couldn't understand his father's move. "He donated hundreds of thousands, but never bought a popsicle for his grandson. When I was going to buy some local specialties, as soon as the boss heard his accent, he said, "Are you from Kunshan? Kunshan people who come to Jinzhai are all good people ..."
Zhou Huosheng wrote such an oath when he joined the party: " I am willing to learn this kind of person made of special materials, and is willing to work hard to contribute all the strength in the struggle of the motherland to finally realize the communist society. One of the most important tasks is to work hard to learn the knowledge of communism and the Communist Party, and to continuously improve their class awareness!
Source: WeChat public account "Civilized Suzhou"
