Everything is so small that love comes at the right time.

On the morning of May 19, the 2024 "Love on the West Lake" Happy Charity Run launched by Chaoxin and the Free Lunch Fund of the China Social Welfare Foundation officially started in Hangzhou West Lake World Lawn. Nearly one thousand loyal users of Tide News, as well as donors, volunteers, and caring citizens who have supported free lunch for many years, gathered by the West Lake to become ambassadors of love. They used their feet to draw the track of love by the West Lake and convey their support and love for public welfare.

Running over the willow waves and warblers, Leifeng Tower, Su Causeway, Broken Bridge

Run 10 kilometers with a heart

In 2023, Chaoxin will hold "Chaowen West Lake National Health Run" for many times, which will lead people to feel the tide of "West Lake 10 km". When you gently step on the path by the West Lake, every step seems to be in dialogue with the millennium history and resonate with the romantic poetry. This year, Chaoxin joined hands with the Free Lunch Fund to renew the relationship with the scenery of the West Lake, which is also the continuation of love and the inheritance of public welfare.

In Hangzhou, just in summer, the water lilies on the lakeside wake up and the mountains are green in summer. Runners set out in the morning from the West Lake World, running through the willow waves, Leifeng Pagoda, Su Dichunxiao, Yuewang Temple, Broken Bridge and Canxue, Hubin Pedestrian Street... A total of 10 kilometers of distance just outlines a huge outline of love.

The beauty of the West Lake is not to be let down. The tide news and free lunch invitation gathered here to talk with ancient trees and resonate with blue waves. Both runners and novices will find themselves in running and gather strength in love.

The beautiful combination of love and nature

Use running to help public welfare

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the runners arrived as scheduled. Tang Min, Deputy Secretary General of the Free Lunch Fund, Deputy Secretary General of Peking University Shenzhen Alumni Association, and sports talent, led us to warm up, stretch our muscles in cheerful music, and greet the next public benefit run in the best state.

With the starting gun sounded, thousands of public welfare runners rushed out of the starting point and ran to the beautiful West Lake.

Today's run around the lake is not a time race, but a large gathering of lovers. Some people experience it for the first time. For example, Ms. Zhang, who lives in Hangzhou, participated in the public service run for the first time. "Although I have participated in the Hangzhou Marathon before, it is the first time for me to run a charity run. I feel very different. I feel that every step of the run is full of love."

Others are the second brush. Mr. He from Guangzhou is a practitioner of public welfare action. He has participated in free lunch and activities held by Chaoxin for many times before. "This year is the second year for me to participate in the" Chaowen West Lake Love is OK "public welfare run. I take my son with me and hope that through this activity, more people will know that there are still many people in the countryside who need help."

The champion of this charity run is Mr. Ren from Hangzhou. He signed up at the first time when he saw the activity in the Tide News. As a Chinese teacher, he ran a 10km love run in only 40 minutes. Mr. Ren also runs with students at ordinary times, but he falls in love with running because of losing weight, and he has become thinner from 170 kg to 110 kg by virtue of this hobby. "Yesterday, I also ran around Longjing. Today is the first time to participate in the public service run, which is very meaningful. Next time, I will ask more friends to join me!"

"This is a beautiful combination of love and nature." Miao Ruilan, vice president and secretary-general of the China Social Welfare Foundation, said, "The 'West Lake 10 km' is probably the most graceful running line in China. Every scenic spot around the lake, such as Liu Lang Wen Ying, Lei Feng Pagoda, Su Di, Xiling Bridge, Bai Di, Broken Bridge, is a heavy brush in the painting. We hope that we can take this public service run as an opportunity to let more people know about public welfare, practice public welfare, and let more people participate in public welfare, happy running, happy public welfare, and happy life. "

In the terminal activity area, under the guidance of volunteers, the runners who ended the charity run took out their mobile phones one after another, donated today's steps through the Tencent charity platform, and exchanged them into bowls of free lunches for rural children to eat, making today's activity more meaningful.

Accumulative fund raising in 2013 exceeded 1 billion yuan

Free lunch for more than 430000 rural schoolchildren

In addition to this public welfare run, on May 18, caring people from Hangzhou and all over the country also gathered in Hangzhou to attend the 13th anniversary conference of the Free Lunch Fund of the China Social Welfare Foundation "Love Meals and Inheritance". Zhou Guohui, President of Zhejiang Popular Science Federation and Vice Chairman of the 12th CPPCC, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Deputy Director and First Level Inspector of Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission, Yang Zhao, Deputy Director of the Municipal Counterpart Support and Regional Cooperation Bureau, Miao Ruilan, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Social Welfare Foundation, Deng Fei, founder of the free lunch project, and Alibaba Public Welfare Representatives of Alipay Public Welfare, Bilibili Public Welfare, Byte Beat Public Welfare and other platforms, as well as government partners, witnessed the new journey of the free lunch project.

From solving a free lunch to becoming a platform to support the development of rural schools, free lunch has gone through the 13th anniversary. "Internet public welfare is constantly developing." Zhou Guohui, Vice Chairman of the 12th CPPCC Provincial Committee, mentioned in his speech that "the digital application of charity and the fingertip public welfare of convenience have accelerated the development of public welfare for all."

"Hangzhou has established a counterpart relationship with 63 counties and districts in 14 cities in 9 provinces, which is called 91463 for short. Charity is also an important part of this relationship. As Hangzhou's counterpart regions, Hubei Enshi, Jilin Changchun Nong'an, and other places, the free lunch fund accurately matches the actual needs of rural education, which not only solves the problem of food and clothing for children, but also paves a road to knowledge and dreams for them. ”Yang Zhao, deputy director of Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Counterpart Support and Regional Cooperation, said.

In addition to providing lunch for children, the Free Lunch Fund is constantly exploring more ways to solve the problems of rural children and schools. Last year, the high-profile "Big Tree School Plan" was launched to encourage each school that runs a free lunch fund to become independent and self reliant. While doing a good job in the free lunch project, we can also do a good job in the dissemination of our own schools, link and integrate resources, help the development of schools and the healthy growth of children, and achieve the revitalization of education and rural revitalization.

Deng Fei, the founder of the free lunch project, said in the press conference that we have been in the front line of the countryside and see the great importance of openness, talent and connectivity to rural development. Free lunch, more than one meal. "We support rural schools to connect with the outside world. At the same time, we are trying to support village branch secretaries, family farms and social organizations where the schools are located. We mainly rely on the market economy to develop the countryside and solve some rural problems fundamentally. In the future, the Free Lunch Fund will continue to explore innovative public welfare models and gather more social forces to jointly promote the revitalization and development of rural education."

This year is also the second year that Tide News and Free Lunch launched a public service run. Through the spread and influence of the media, Tide News hopes to gather social forces, appeal to more people to pay attention to public welfare undertakings and warm more people.

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Edited by Wang Xiaoting

Second instance Li Jie

Third instance Zhou Wenjun