| Xie Hailong was just a worker at a small factory before he became the photographer behind the most successful charity project inChina. |
在成為中國最成功的慈善行動的幕后“推手”之前，解海龍還只是在一家小工廠工作。 |
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Project Hope, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this October, has raised 4 billion yuan (US$5.86 million), financed the education of 3 million students and built 14,000 primary schools. It also has provided funding for structural and technological improvements and teacher training. And according to a 1999 report by theNationalResearchCenterfor Science and Technology Development, more than 63.5 percent of people in 29 provincial capital cities have contributed to Project Hope in some way. But the biggest contributor, perhaps, will always remain Xie.
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今年10月，希望工程將迎來它的20周年紀念。在過去20年中，它收到捐款40億（586萬美元），資助了三百萬學生，援建了14000座希望小學。它還為改善辦學條件和師資培訓提供資金。中國科技促進發展研究中心1999年的一份報告顯示，全國29個省會城市中超過63.5%的人以各種方式參與了希望工程。但是，在這些人當中，解海龍無疑是最大的功臣。 |
| The organizers of Project Hope, the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), and Xie embarked on their public awareness campaigns for the education of rural Chinese youth separately. The Communist Youth League, recognizing the shortage of education funds for millions of young Chinese students in rural villages, established the CYDF to collect money from society, and Project Hope was launched. Its first school, inAnhuiProvince, opened the same year. |
解海龍與希望工程的組織者---中國青少年發展基金會分別發起行動，以期提高公眾對農村青少年教育的認識。中國共青團，發現農村地區數百萬青少年教育面臨缺乏經費的困境，便成立了中國青少年發展基金會面向社會籌款，同時成立希望工程。同年，第一所希望小學在安徽建成。 |
| By then, Xie already had heard news reports about the difficulties rural children faced in getting an education and traveled to remote villages to see them firsthand. In 1987, while inGuangxiProvinceto photograph folk customs, Xie heard students reading aloud and followed the sound. The sounds led him to a single-room schoolhouse with some 30 students, ranging from grade 1 to 6, and a young teacher carrying her own 5-month-old baby on her back. Touched by the scene, he started taking pictures - his first ones of rural education. Xie had found the direction for his photography career. |
那時，解海龍已經從相關報道中了解到農村教育面臨的諸多困難，并開始親自走訪偏遠農村了解情況。1987年，當他在廣西省拍攝民俗時，他聽到了孩子們朗朗的讀書聲并聞聲來到了一個只有一間教室的校舍。那里有30多名孩子正在上課，從一年級到六年級，只有一名年輕的教師背著她5個月大的孩子在教課。此景觸動了解海龍，于是拍攝下第一組關于農村教育的照片。至此，他找到了今后的藝術方向。 |
| "I couldn't sleep that night," Xie says. "I wondered what the education situation nationwide was. How many teachers like Dai Hongying were sticking to their posts? What's the nation's expenditure on education?" |
“當晚我無法入睡。我想知道全國的教育狀況如何，有多少像戴紅英這樣的老師堅守著崗位，全國的教育投入是多少。”解海龍說。 |
| As soon as Xie returned toBeijing, he went to the library to find out. China was spending about 2 percent of its gross domestic product on education, ranking eleventh from last out of 160 countries worldwide, Xie says. At least 2 million children between 7 and 13 had to drop out of school each year. |
一回到北京，解海龍就跑到圖書館查閱資料：中國的教育投入只占GDP 2%左右，在全世界160個國家中排名倒數第11。每年至少有二百萬7-13歲的兒童輟學。 |
| "It wasn't because thatChinadidn't value education," Xie notes. "Rather, it was because there were too many areas that needed improvement, and the comprehensive national strength was still quite weak. But people believed education was really excellent." |
“這并不是因為中國不重視教育，而是因為有太多的地區需要改善，再加上綜合國力不夠強。相反，人們認為我們的教育狀況已經很好了。” |
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