(编按:本文选自嘉里集团郭氏基金会《2018小册子》前言)
让人民生活更加幸福美满
2017 年,我们庆祝基金会成立十周年,并借此机会对我们过去多年的工作进行回顾和反思。我们过去十年的征程并非一帆风顺,但是,我们每次跌倒都能重新站立,且从未停止继续前进的步伐。在未来的日子,我们将坚持“知其不可为而为之,虽千万人吾往矣”的勇气和精神,昂首阔步地走向下一个十年,勇敢地迎接新的挑战。
经过十年持之以恒的努力,我们已经在这片广阔的土地上深深扎根,并奠定了坚实的基础,也创建了一个“让人民生活更加幸福美满”的模式。这使我们获得了当地政府及社会的肯定、认可和支持。我们相信,这个经过我们建立并付诸实践多年的脱贫攻坚模式,已在中国的农村和城市产生了深远的影响,规范公德的意识已经慢慢地在人们的生活中落地生根。
这本小册子记录了来自全国各地的一些平凡人的“改变”故事,朴实却又感人至深。我们见证了故事中的人们为了追求更加幸福美满生活而坚持不懈地努力去建立一个公平和谐社会,最终取得的感人成果。
往前行我们将继续致力于提升人的素质和能力,并通过“人的培养、质的深化、面的覆盖”这三大策略在下一个十年来巩固并扩散推广我们已有的成果。
我们是一群务实的理想主义者。在关心和爱护他人之余,我们也需要彼此之间,亲情、友情和爱情的相互扶持,以坚定我们在这条漫长且艰巨的千里之程中继续迈步前行。
展望下一个十年,让我们共同携手在这条将美梦变成美好回忆的路上继续前行,书写更多温暖人心的篇章,记录更多人民走向更加幸福美满生活的感人故事。
彭定中
嘉里集团郭氏基金会总裁
2018 年 8 月 1 日
For the Brighter and Happier Life of the People
In 2017, we celebrated the Foundation’s tenth anniversary and also took the opportunity to review and reflect upon our endeavours over the years. The ten years have not all been plain sailing, but we rose every time we fell and never stopped pressing ahead. With the spirit and the courage of doing the impossible against all odds, we will audaciously stride forward into the second decade and embrace the challenges ahead.
After ten years of unrelenting efforts, we have laid a firm and deep-rooted foundation on this vast landscape, and have created a model that brings a brighter and happier life to the people. This has therefore enabled us to win affirmation, recognition, and support from the government and members of the society. We believe that this poverty eradication model which we have established and implemented in the past years has already made far-reaching impact across rural and urban China, and that a rule-abiding and caring mindset has slowly but steadily taken root in the grassroots ordinary people’s daily lives.
This 2018 Brochure is a collection of some of the many deeply touching simple stories of change from many of the ordinary people across the nation. We have witnessed the heart-warming results of their persistent efforts towards building a fair and harmonious society and thereby bringing a brighter and happier life for the people.
Looking ahead, we will continue to enhance people’s quality and capability, and strengthen our achievements with three strategies—consolidating and deepening impact of our model, spreading our impact further, and developing more change drivers.
We are a group of pragmatic idealists. While we are caring and compassionate, we need the support of each other and of our families, friends, and loved ones, in order to march forward on this arduous journey.
As we look forward to the next decade, we shall continue to work together to transform our beautiful dreams into great memories, and thus create more heart-warming stories for the better life of many more ordinary people!
David J. Pang CEO,
Kerry Group Kuok Foundation
1st August 2018