China Agricultural University News NetworkOn December 5th, the award ceremony of Xizhi Scholarship and Ouyang Qi Inspirational Scholarship was held in the lecture hall on the fourth floor of the main building of the East Campus. Xin Xian, Vice President and Chairman of the Education Association of China Agricultural University, Ouyang Yingzhi, Director Huang Rupu, Director of Hong Kong Xizhi Education, Zhang Yin, Director of the Student Affairs Department of the Party Committee, and Wang Ling, Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Education Association, attended the ceremony. The meeting was presided over by Huang Zhenxiang, Deputy Director of the Student Affairs Department of the Party Committee and Director of the Student Financial Aid Management Center.
Xin Xian extended a warm welcome to Ouyang Yingzhi and Huang Rupu and their entourage to visit Agricultural University again despite the severe cold and thousands of miles away, and expressed his high respect for the uninterrupted selfless donation of Hong Kong Xizhi Education** for 26 years. He interpreted the selfless love of Xizhi Education from three aspects, one is that the two generations of the Ouyang family have continued to inherit public welfare and charity, showing the traditional Chinese filial piety;The second is to care for the economically disadvantaged students of the Agricultural University family as always, showing the noble feelings of "reaching the world and helping the world".The third is the dedication to national education and rural revitalization, showing the pure heart of loving the motherland. He sent a message to the award-winning students to always be grateful, keep in mind the funding of the Xi Zhi Scholarship and the Ouyang Qi Inspirational Bursary and the spirit of Xi behind them, work hard, strive for self-improvement, and strive to grow into a new type of talent who knows agriculture and loves agriculture.
Xin Xian, on behalf of the Education Association, presented Ouyang Yingzhi with the honorary director certificate of the China Agricultural University Education Association.
Huang Zhenxiang introduced the donation process of Hong Kong Xizhi Education in Agricultural University and the management and implementation in recent years. Hong Kong Xi Education** is a private charity founded in 1986 by Ouyang Yingzhi's parents, Ouyang Qi and Liu Jinluan. In 1997, it was decided to donate funds to set up the Xi Scholarship in our school to fund students with financial difficulties in our school, the first donation of 20,000 yuan to fund 10 students, since then the donation amount, funding standards, and the number of aided students have continued to expand, and the funding standard has increased all the way to 7500 yuan per year, and the number of subsidized students has increased to 150 per year, as of 2023, more than 2,600 people have won the Xi Zhi Scholarship (Grant) in our school, with a cumulative amount of nearly 14 million yuan. In 2011, Ouyang Yingzhi's younger brother Ouyang Yanzhi funded the establishment of the Ouyang Qi Inspirational Bursary in our school to subsidize students from economically disadvantaged families in our school, and the subsidy standard was increased to 6,000 yuan per year year and the number of subsidized students was increased to 150 per year year year by year. As of 2023, more than 1,000 people have received the Ouyang Qi Scholarship (Ouyang Qi Inspirational Scholarship), with a cumulative amount of nearly 6 million yuan. The Xizhi Scholarship and Ouyang Qi Inspirational Bursary established by the Ouyang family are the scholarship and grant programs with the longest duration, the largest number of sponsors and the largest cumulative amount of individual donations in our school.
In addition, in 2020, during the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Hong Kong Xi Education** donated 200,000 yuan to our school to set up "epidemic prevention and control**", and in 2022, it donated 200,000 yuan to our school again to set up the "Qi Xi Hands-on Bursary" to help the younger siblings of financially disadvantaged students who have won the "Xi Zhi Scholarship" and "Ouyang Qi Inspirational Scholarship" to study in middle school. Liu Jinluan, Ouyang Yingzhi and Ouyang Yanzhi have always been concerned about the growth of the school's aided students, and have insisted on coming to the school for many years to meet and discuss with students, exchange letters, send graduates to leave the school, and give their own books, etc., to gain an in-depth understanding of everyone's life and Xi, and encourage and motivate everyone to be self-confident and self-reliant.
This year, a new batch of 150 students with excellent character and academic performance won the Xizhi Scholarship, and 150 students received the Ouyang Qi Inspirational Bursary. Ouyang Yingzhi and Huang Rupu presented certificates to the representatives of the award-winning students.
Ouyang Yingzhi said in his speech that he was very happy to meet the students on the campus of Agricultural University again after six years, and was deeply pleased to see the growth and progress made by the students, and was deeply moved to receive gifts from the school and students. Combined with her father Ouyang Qi's hard work and hard work, she encouraged the award-winning students to be self-reliant, self-reliant, self-reliant, dare to think, dare to fight, cherish the current hard-won Xi opportunities, cultivate the feelings of the family and country, exercise and grow and improve, and contribute to the construction of the motherland in the future. Hong Kong Xizhi Education** is willing to provide financial support for students and projects who are interested in returning to their hometowns to start businesses, help the development of their hometowns, and drive farmers to become rich, and work together to help rural revitalization.
Each of the 300 award-winning students of the Xizhi Scholarship and the Ouyang Qi Inspirational Bursary wrote a growth report by himself, reporting his growth, achievements, feelings and experiences in his thinking, academic Xi, practice and life, and expressing his heartfelt gratitude. Zhang Yin presented Ouyang Yingzhi and Huang Rupu with a collection of award-winning student growth reports bound into a book.
On behalf of the school, Wang Ling presented Ouyang Yingzhi and Huang Rupu with butterfly specimens made by the students of the Insect Lovers Association, expressing the gratitude of the teachers and students of the school to Hong Kong Xi Education**.
Song Shihao, winner of the Xizhi Scholarship and a 2020 student of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Han Chuqi, a winner of the Ouyang Qi Inspirational Scholarship and a 2023 student of the School of Humanities and Development, took the stage to speak as representatives of the award-winning students. The two students reported their growth experience and future plans during their time at the school, and expressed their firm belief in serving the country with the ambition and gratitude to make contributions on the stage of rural revitalization in the future.
More than 110 Xizhi Scholarship and Ouyang Qi Inspirational Scholarship winners attended the award ceremony.
Contributed by: Student Affairs Department of the Party Committee (Student Affairs Department, Armed Forces Department).
Photo courtesy of the Student Affairs Department of the Party Committee (Student Affairs Department, Armed Forces Department).
Editor: Li Yang.
Editor-in-charge: Ma Wenzhe.