Saturday, July 16, 2011

Jimei School Village

Xiamen city includes several islands. In fact, xiamen university is on the largest island with one-third of the city's three million population. On the mainland we visited Jimenei school village. At first I wasn't terribly interested in this stop until I learned that it was a community multiple schools ranging from kindergarten through college built by a man in the 1960s who earned his fortune through canning pineapple and eventually manufacturing rubber. He lived simply and donated most of his money to building schools in China. Now, that is pretty cool.



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