1 BILLION: Peking University Receives Single Largest Donation

今天，北京大学收获建校以来最大一笔个人捐赠，也是最大一笔校友捐赠。名誉校董、中公教育集团董事长，1995级校友李永新和他创建的北京中公公益基金会捐资10亿元，设立北京大学中公教育发展基金。

Peking University has received the single largest private donation from an alumnus since its founding. The donor is Li Yongxin, chairman of the Board of Offcn Education Technology Co., Ltd.

Li, together with the Beijing Zhonggong Public Welfare Foundation led by him, donated 1 billion yuan to set up PKU- Offcn Education Development Fund. Prior to this, Li had donated 180 million yuan to Peking University. The whopping donation aims to provide Peking University with all-rounded support in areas such as disciplinary development, teaching & research, faculty and student training.

The donation ceremony was held at Peking University on March 3 and was presided over by Peking University Vice President Wang Bo. In addition to the donor Li Yongxin, the attendees at the ceremony also included Han Qide, vice chairman of the 10th and 11th Standing Committee of NPC, Qiu Shuiping, chair of Peking University Council, Hao Ping, president of Peking University, Sun Taoran, honorary trustee of Peking University, as well as other leaders, faculty members and students from Peking University.

Li was admitted to the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in 1995, which is now known as the School of Government at Peking University. When Li was about to graduate from Peking University in 1999, he started his own business. With more than 20 years of dedicated development, Offcn Education has become a leading vocational education institution in China.

This is only one of the many significant donations made by Li. In recent years, he made donations to support the School of Government in teaching, research and student training. He also supported a series of activities in 2018 that celebrated the 120th anniversary of Peking University. In the same year, Li donated 100 million yuan to finance Peking University in building a quality campus, pressing ahead with alumni-related work and promoting the disciplinary development of humanities. Li continued with his generous donations to the School of Government and the Graduate School of Education in 2019. It is followed by his financial support in 2020 to the "White Angel Guardian Fund", which was initiated by Li and other PKU alumni amid the COVID-19 pandemic and raised over 100 million yuan within three days to support PKU's medical workers in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

With a heart of giving and high hopes for the future development of Peking University, PKU alumni have been making donations to offer support. The donations made by alumni have become a pillar of support for Peking University in a wide range of aspects, giving impetus to PKU's endeavor of building a first-class university in the world.

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1 BILLION: Peking University Receives Single Largest Donation

Source: Peking University Education Foundation

Writer: Qiu Tianjie, Lee Xin Ying Rachel

Editor: Huang Weijian

Photo: Wang Tiantian, Liu Yueling, Cao Qianqian, Song Mengli

Designer: Pu Hairui