GNCCS Education Project

Phase II: Financial Assistance Program

Year 2005-8 Grade 10 Recipients

Biography

1

XuXing

XuXing is 15 years old, ethnic Han.  He is the youngest of 3 high

school age boys.  His good grades enabled him to enter this

premier school.  His parents are farmers and are deeply in debt due

to the sons’ school expenses.  Their crop is a total failure this year

because of the flood in their village.  He is determined to enter a

good college after high school.

Homeroom teacher:  Hard working. Good grades. Still owes tuition

and book fees this year.

2

HeJiaJi

HeJiaJi is 16 years old, ethnic NaXi.  His home is in a poor and

remote region.  Both parents are farmers.  Although in poor health,

the father works odd jobs between farming seasons to support the 2

students.  JiaJi has always done well in school and well liked by

his teachers.  He is determined to enter a top university after high

school.

Homeroom teacher:  Diligent high achiever, good citizenship and

cheerful.

3

WangYongFeng

WangYongFeng is 16 years old, ethnic Han.  She is from a

traditional farming family.  Aged grandparents need medical

attention.  Both her brother and herself are in senior high.  Her

good grades enabled her to enter this premier school.  The parents

are under terrific financial burden this year.

Homeroom teacher:  Shy and quiet, has good grades and very

focused on her studies.

4

HeGuoYun

HeGuoYun is 16 years old, ethnic NaXi.  His family of four lives

in a “natural” village (in an undeveloped wilderness area).  The

high altitude, year-round harsh climate, and the poor soil condition

make life mean and difficult.  They rely on their potato and corn

crops.  They sell a few chickens and eggs to supplement their

farming income.

Homeroom teacher:  Home village is poor and in the high

mountains.  The family has no steady source of income.

5

ZiWenJu

ZiWenJu is 15 years old, ethnic NaXi.  Her family lives in a poor

farming village.  Her mother is sickly.  Father’s small income

alone supports the 2 girls in school.  She is very shy.  Her family’s

financial situation is a heavy burden on her spirit.

Homeroom teacher:  She is very focused on her goal.  She has very

good study habits.  She is grateful for any assistance.

6

ZhangQuiPing

ZhangQuiPing is 16 years old, ethnic Han.  He is from a

farming family.  His 86-year-old grandmother requires medical

treatments at the hospital.  Mother is weak and anemic due to

malnutrition.  Father is an unskilled and uneducated day labor.

With his RMB15/day income, he could barely afford to medicate

his mother and feed his wife and children.  The parents would not

permit the boy to quit school so they sold their meager belongings

and borrowed from friends and relatives this year.  The whole

village was so proud of the boy’s achievement that they gather

what they could to send the boy onto the LiJiang School.

Homeroom teacher:  Very motivated.  Understands the

expectations from the family and the hopes of his home village are

on his shoulders.

7

YangYingSheng

YangYingSheng is 16 years old, ethnic Bai.  Both parents

are farmers.  The yield from their small field is very poor.  The

family often goes into debt in order to send the kids to school.  The

draught this year plunged the family deeper into debt.  The boy is

very quiet and very self conscious of his recent growing spurt.  He

is awkward with his long limbs and big feet.  His is grateful for the

opportunity to attend this prestigious school and vows to overcome

his shyness.  He is anxious about maintaining his high ranking in

his class.

Homeroom teacher:  The young man is still growing and is hungry

all the time.  He needs more food and nutritious food.

8

YinFaLin

YinFaLin is 16 years old, ethnic Dai.  His village is a Dai

Nationality Village near the Golden Sand River.  This village is

one of the 10 poorest areas of HuaPing County.  The area was

under server draught condition for the past few years.  Current

family income is RMB600/year and is in urgent need of assistance

for the coming winter season.  Parents are corn and wheat farmers.

He has a 84-year old grandmother and a brother in junior high.  He

feels proud and very fortunate to be here at this 100-year-old high

school.

Homeroom teacher:  Although from a poor village in the

mountains, he has high hopes in a bright future.  He is very

focused on his present tasks and measures his improvement on

daily basis.  He is psychologically healthy and has good

citizenship: a perfect candidate for success.

9

ZhangGuanYan

ZhangGuanYan is 16 years old, ethnic Han.  Family lives

in the mountains and farms a small field.  The father is ill but

would not spend money on medicine.  The family goes into debt

each September in order to send her and the brother to school.  She

is determined to succeed in this school.

Homeroom teacher:  Although she is small but very smart and

hardworking.  She is curious about all new things and is very

sociable.  Although her life style is plain and modest, she is very

high-spirited.

10

YangLiXiong

YangLiXiong is 17 years old, ethnic MoSuo.  His home is

in a Natural MoSuo Village near the hot spring.  He has 2 parents

who live apart according to the MoSuo matriarchal family

structure.  There are 11 in his family clan:  2 grandparents, an

uncle, 2 aunts, mother, 2 sisters, a cousin and a nephew.  Only 5

are able to work in the small family rice/corn fields to support the

9 adults, 2 students and the baby.  He is very proud of his MuSuo

heritage and invites GNCCS to visit his home village.

Homeroom teacher:  Although he is from a remote undeveloped

regions (one of the poorest nationwide), he has a cheerful

personality, eager to learn and curious about all new things in the

outside world.