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SHANGHAI, Dec. 27, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On a meadow of Paradise Mountain at an altitude of 2,400 meters stands a

luminous boulder. Stepping into the boulder and looking up, one would see an

inner wall engraved with children's poems.

On Dec. 23, China UnionPay, the world's top bank card organization, joined

hands with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and a rural poetry education

public welfare organization to put on a poetry festival in the mountains in

Mangshui Town, Changning County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The event

was livestreamed online to showcase local children' talents, as well as the

charm of Chinese poetry and the goodwill of the Chinese people.

At the event, the children poets read and shared their poems, and sang

poem-related songs. Besides, some unique local intangible cultural heritage

performances were also staged, creating rounds of climax during the festival,

which has attracted more than 30 million online viewers.

In the luminous boulder, people can get a POS receipt printed with several

children's poems by donating 1 yuan at the UnionPay Poetry POS, and all

proceeds will be donated to the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation.

This event has also attracted the attention and support of many famous people

at home and abroad, such as Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia, Jake Pinnick, an

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

media professional and online celebrity Andy Boreham, who read these children's

poems in a passionate manner to support the festival.

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

the past five years, the campaign has entered more than 400 schools in

mountainous regions in Anhui, Henan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan and other

places.

More than 100 poetry classes (cross-school combined classes) have been

organized, helping more than 7,000 local children receive artistic literacy

education. In addition, the campaign has collected over 6,000 poems, and

published a collection titled Little Poets in the Mountains. The first UnionPay

public welfare library and 114 public welfare book corners have been put into

use in Jinzhai, east China's Anhui Province.

Source: China UnionPay

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   Caption: On Dec. 23, China UnionPay, joined hands with the China Soong Ching Ling

Foundation and a rural poetry education public welfare organization to put on a

poetry festival in the mountains in Mangshui Town, Yunnan Province.