Bell Cast to Commemorate Project HopeA bronze bell was cast to commemorate the decade-old non-governmental charitable Project Hope, said an official with the project founder China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF).The bell was designed by the former curator of the Shanghai Museum and prominent bronze scholar Ma Chengyuan together with Professor Chen Tong with the Institute of Acoustics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Inscriptions on the bell were written by Nan Huaijin, a master Chinese culture scholar. Two-meters high and weighing more than two tons, the Project Hope Bell is to be hung at the project's teaching training base in Shanghai. The original mold is now kept at the CYDF's headquarters in Beijing. Project Hope, launched by the CYDF in 1989, has helped nearly 2.3 million school-leavers return to school and established more than 8,000 Hope schools around China. |
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