On the afternoon of July 2nd, Guangdong Education Foundation, on behalf of Shunde Container Terminal Co., LTD, went to Gaotan Town, Huidong County for the seventh time to present the "Shunde Rongqi Port Scholarship grant" to the teachers and students of Gaotan Middle School and held the award ceremony. A total of 86 students and teachers of the school won the "Shunde Rongqi Port Scholarship and Teaching Grant" of 59,100 yuan in the second semester of the 2009-2010 academic year. More than 100 people attended the award ceremony, including Xu Huaisheng, deputy Secretary-General of Guangdong Education Foundation, He Zhaozhong, director of the office, Zhu Hongying, head of the donation group, Liu Zhihui, deputy director of the Education Bureau of Huidong county, Luo Jinyang, deputy mayor of Gaotan Town, and some teachers and students of Gaotan Middle School.

       At the award ceremony, Mr. Xu highly praised Shunde Container Terminals Co., Ltd. and its chairman Mr. Zhang Haitao for their selfless dedication, deep love and the traditional virtue of never forgetting education and benefiting the people. It fully affirmed the teachers' devotion to their jobs and selfless dedication to education in remote mountainous areas, which promoted the education and teaching quality of the school to be improved greatly, and made important contributions to the successful establishment of "Strong education town in Guangdong Province" in Gaotan Town. Guangdong Provincial Education Foundation has been appraised as a 5A social organization by the provincial Civil affairs Department.

       Entrusted by Director Li Jiangyan, Deputy Director Liu expressed his heartfelt thanks and high respect to The Guangdong Education Foundation and Shunde Container Terminals Co., LTD., and expressed his sincere hope to the teachers and students of Gotan Middle School. Vice Mayor Luo Jinyang expressed his sincere gratitude to The Guangdong Education Foundation and Shunde Container Terminal Co., Ltd. for their contributions to the success of Creating a strong education town in Gao-Tan Town, and reported on the "innovation and strength" work of mortgaging the hydropower station in Gao-Tan Town with a loan of 2 million yuan and mobilizing the villagers to donate 3 million yuan to build a school. The principal and representatives of teachers and students made speeches respectively.

       After the award ceremony, the leaders, guests and the teachers and students who received the awards took group photos.

       (From the website of Huidong County Education Bureau)