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Article: HK policemen help build Project Hope schools
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 4, 2002
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HK policemen help build Project Hope schools
ZHENGZHOU, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Five Project Hope schools have been
set up in rural areas of central China's Henan province with a
donation of 1.8 million yuan (216,900 US dollars) from a group of
Hong Kong policemen.
The most recently finished is a three-storey primary school at
Chenggang village, Caiyuan town of Tangyin county, where the noted
national hero Yue Fei (1103-1142), of the Southern Song Dynasty, was
born and raised. Yue Fei has been nationally regarded as a paragon
of patriotism.
According to local sources, the three-story primary school, which
cost 300,000 yuan (36,000 dollars), is capable of accommodating 18
classes of ...