Taking on Three Decades, Education Remains Our Aim

Dr. Lungching Chiao

Chairperson of SERC

We cannot choose when or where to be born, yet we are grateful for the upbringing, education, challenges, and opportunities to developing our talents and abilities provided by our families, communities, and countries. We consequently have obligation to give back to the society and pass on that to our next generation.

Human capital is the most important resource for any society or country to develop and grow. Regretfully, many Chinese have lost their confidence in China due to past hundred years of national humiliation, stark poverty and war-torn destruction. Chinese are however indeed privileged with five thousand years of rich civilization and culture, which are still deeply ingrained in us. In the span of recent four decades, China ’s rapid rising in national and international accomplishment is a living proof of resilient potential and wisdom of a nation.

Despite of its impressive growth in world’s economy today, China is still a developing nation and lags developed counties in many ways. Particularly when it comes to China’s remote and poorer regions, where the hard life, lack of trained teachers and inadequate school facilities and learning resources are in dire need of improvement. To meet such critical need, Education and Science Society (ESS) offered timely assistance with innovative teaching and learning theories to improve rural schools. ESS furnished school equipment, facilities and teacher training are amiably welcome and praised.

Since ESS’s inauguration of “Support Education in Rural China” (SERC) Program in 1988, ESS has carried out SERC Program continuously in its 29 years. Some may question if the SERC should end and be concluded now that China is more prosperous with better government funding and attention for education. However, we genuinely believe that if life continues, there’s always room and demand for improvement in the quality of education.

In nearly 30 years of ESS work in China, ESS does not profess to have upgraded rural area education in China in any big way, however, ESS has achieved some improvement in education of certain rural areas in concert with local education agencies. ESS also has enhanced the quality of teaching and learning of thousands of students and teachers there. In addition, ESS also has acted to bridge the care and enthusiasm of many overseas Chinese and friends to the remote and poor schools in China, and their funds and volunteered labor made the improvement possible in a timely and meaningful way.

It is that spirit and sense of responsibility of hundreds of volunteers of ESS Chinese overseas and from within China, working in line with China’s national education policy and practices, that have rendered well the SERC program planning, fund raising, liaison and program implementation. In the process, SERC has formed a humble and tight bond with such local communities. ESS donners have no doubt benefited the lives of thousands of rural teachers and students.

ESS shares the same goal with you ESS donors old and new, with profound appreciation of your encouragement and donation. We welcome you to join us for this worthy cause to help promote the renaissance of Chinese civilization. True to our hearts in nearly three decades, education remains our aim.