Feb 26, 2008 is a life memorable day for Ma Chaoran from Guizhou. At that day, they made their first visit to capital Beijing from Guiyang where was inconvenience of traffic because of the snowstorm. And they were pleasantly surprised to receive 5000 yuan subvention provided by the Chunlan Group.
"It's incredible thing even in my dreams." The only 8-year-old little I-go player said excitedly in financing ceremony 2008 of "Chunlan I-go hope project". And he expresses his determination on the 12 little I-go players who recieve subvention provided by Chunlan Group to turn the thanksgiving to passion of study, make continuous efforts to get progress in order to participate in the tournament in near future.
It is understood that only 6-year-old player Wang Chenguang from snowstorm hardest hit Guizhou, 11-year-old Liang Hongzhang and 13-year-old Ma Rulong from Hunan are among the little I-go players funded by Chunlan Group besides Ma Chaoran. The other 8 junior players come from Zhejiang, Beijing, Tianjing, Shanghai, inner Mongolia, etc. The average age is less than 11 years old. The highest dan of them is professional 1 dan and the lowest is amateur 6 dan. Up to now, almost 100 hundred outstanding junior I-go players have benefitted from "Chunlan I-go hope project" during 6 years.
According to the relevant people of China Qiyuan's presentation, in Chunlan's continuous funding and incentive, domestic junior I-go players grow rapidly and make multiple echelons. A lot of junior seeds funded by Chunlan such as Liao Xingwen, Fan Weiqing, Wang Xiangyun, Pu Wenyao, Li Zhe and etc won awards in the international or national I-go tournaments and demonstrated surprising potential.
According to the reports, public-spirited Chunlan wins wide praise of the community for the sense of responsibility of building a harmonious society and the charity of promoting China's long-term commitment to the cause of sports and culture's further development. CCTV and the major mainstream media report to praise Chunlan's "great love" spirit.
Director of the National Administration Center of Sport Card, Liu Siming, China Qiyuan president Hua Yigang, China I-go Association president Wang Runan, assistant CEO of Chunlan Group, Liu Yafu and director of information services of Chunlan Group,Huang Wenbao, etc attended the ceremony of the fund.
First, Liu Siming thanked Chunlan for the surport of I-go as always. He hoped all of the junior I-go player funded by Chunlan to keep studying hard , not to live up to Chunlan Group's hopes. He also hoped that the community would concern and surport China I-go and China sports further to make new greater contributions to development of China sports.
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