Photo taken on November 26 shows award-winners at the awarding ceremony of the IFENG Action League & 2023 Public Welfare Extravaganza in Beijing [Photo/ CCTF]

The "Spring Bud Gas Station" project won an award for special contributions at an awarding ceremony of the IFENG Action League & 2023 Public Welfare Extravaganza in Beijing on November 26.

The ceremony brought together people from public welfare, academic, innovation, media, literary & sports, and business sectors. Zhang Yanhong, Secretary-General of China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), and Liu Youping, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of China Charity Alliance (CCA), attended the ceremony and presented awards to top 10 charitable programs.

With the theme of "Trans-boundary, Public Welfare and Sustainability," the awarding ceremony announced winners of top 10 charitable individuals, top 10 charitable innovations, top 10 charitable projects, top 10 charitable enterprises and other similar categories.

An honorary certificate and trophy won by the "Spring Bud Gas Station" project [Photo/ CCTF]

In July 2022, the CCTF worked with China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) to launch the "Spring Bud Gas Station" project in response to the proposals made by Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan concerning the further development of the "Spring Bud Project—Dream of the Future Action."

The "Spring Bud Gas Station" project is mainly designed to build friendly growth venues for girls, organize training activities for rural teachers, invite volunteers to establish pairing-up relations with candidate girls and their families, release financial assistance to disadvantaged girls, provide precise aids to impoverished girls and their families, meet diverse development needs of girls and promote their comprehensive development on the basis of guaranteeing their right to education.

So far, the "Spring Bud Gas Station" project has built 33 friendly growth venues for girls in 12 provincial regions and held 105 sessions of thematic activities both online and offline. It is expected to establish 100 girls-oriented activity venues with a beneficiary population of 200,000.