Li Ka Shing donates $3m to train female village officials  

李嘉诚捐二千万人民币 陕西千名女村官参加培训

“展璞计划”陕西省项目管理人员及高校师资培训班开班仪式26日在西北大学举行，到2016年，陕西将有千名女村官分批参加培训。该计划是由民政部与李嘉诚基金会联合发起，中组部和全国妇联支持的一项公益项目。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- The Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF) has donated 20 million yuan ($3 million) to a training project aimed at helping female village officials advance in their leadership, which will benefit 1,000 women in Shaanxi province by 2016, the Wenweipo reported on Friday.

As a part of the program called "Project Zhanpu", an opening ceremony for the training class for female managers and university teachers was held Thursday at Northwest University in Xi'an.

At the ceremony, Chen Yu, a project manager at the LKSF, said the class has been designed to provide opportunities for rural female officials in poor regions with limited access to professional leadership training.

A total of 11 teachers at Northwest University will be introduced to train the village officials.

Small-class teaching will be introduced for the five-day program, and 40 village officials will be introduced for each session.

Female officials in Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi will also be benefit from the "Project Zhanpu" program.