Yung-hsi Lee, chairman of Hong Kong-based Textile Alliance Ltd, and descendants of the Lee family recently paid a visit to Jiading in Shanghai to worship family ancestors and donate 1 million yuan ($163,000) to support local education.
The Lee family has always supported the development of education. Early in 1921, Lee's ancestors opened a primary school at the Lee clan ancestral temple, which was suspended in 1941 due to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945). The school was reopened in 1949 and was the predecessor of Jiading No 2 Middle School. In the 1990s, C.C. Lee, Lee's father, visited the school several times and made a donation to buy teaching equipment. In 2011, Lee donated 2.4 million yuan to restore the Zhongbin Building in the school, which was named after his grandfather. He also established a fund and an English teaching center with UK's Middlesex University, where foreign English teachers and English teachers from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are employed to improve the English proficiency of students.
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Zhongbin Building in the school [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] |
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The English teaching center cooperated?with UK's Middlesex University [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] |
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The visitors at Jiading No 2 Middle School [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] |