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SHANGHAI, Sept. 5, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

For thousands of years, the Great Wall has guarded the Chinese territory and

the homeland of the Chinese people. On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine

grassland, a string of moving poems composed by little poets living in the

mountainous areas made a magnificent "Great Wall of Poetry", which helps

protect the spiritual homeland of these children as well as the common

spiritual world for everyone.

This is a special public welfare program called "The Great Wall of Poetry --

Let the Undiscovered Literary Talents of Children in the Mountainous areas

Shine" launched by this year's Poetry POS campaign launched by China UnionPay,

the country's top bank card organization. Via livestreaming, the program seeks

to display the talents of children in the mountainous areas to the world.

Two representatives of the little poets came to the event site and recited

their poems in a grassland surrounded by mountains in Zherong County, Ningde

City of southeast China's Fujian Province. Their voices echoed in the

mountains, leaving the poetic feel flow along the "Great Wall of Poetry". There

were also some local intangible heritage performances, which turned this public

welfare livestreaming into a cultural feast. In the online livestreaming

platform of Xinhua News Agency's English app, more than 10 million viewers

shared this poetic spectacle.

It is worth mentioning that the warm-up of this event has also attracted the

attention and support of many famous people at home and abroad. Jake Pinnick,

an American who has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years,

Robert Adolf, a German who loves Chinese cuisine, Cai Zi, a well-known host,

Xiaolin, a painter, and Pan Jiangxue, a pioneer in poverty alleviation, read

these children's poems earnestly in recognition and support of this special

public welfare program.

At the event, people got a POS receipt printed with poems by donating one yuan

at the UnionPay Poetry POS, and all proceeds will be donated to the China Soong

Ching Ling Foundation.

China UnionPay Poetry POS campaign was officially launched in July 2019. Over

the past four years, the donations raised have been used in Anhui, Henan,

Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan and other regions, helping nearly 5,000 children

enjoy artistic literacy lessons.

Source: China UnionPay

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   Caption: On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine grassland, a string of moving poems

composed by little poets living in the mountainous areas made a magnificent

"Great Wall of Poetry".