Xi hails Project Hope as education program marks 30th anniversary

President Xi Jinping stressed on Wednesday the importance of efforts to continue to pay attention to and support Project Hope as the public welfare program marks its 30th anniversary.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark in a message to the program.

Project Hope was started by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and the China Youth Development Foundation in 1989. It is tasked with improving the education infrastructure and helping children who drop out return to school in the country's poorest areas.