XIAMEN CHINA - MediaOutReach - 21October 2019 - A most poeticcharity campaign is being held on Piano Ferry Terminal, Kulangsu, Xiamen, fromOctober 15th to October 28th 2019, which attracted tensof thousands of visitors everyday. There are ten poetry POS machines on displayinside a modern artistic structure. People can pay one yuan with their smart phonefor a collection of poems written by a group of children living in rural areas.People's donation will be used to provide art and literature lessons for thesechildren. UnionPay joined hands with Kulangsu Poetry Festival to launch this campaignand gathered support from nearly 100 poets from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwanwho visited to the event site. Zhicheng Luo, a Taiwan poet, said, "Aestheticexperience like reading and writing from childhood will have a great impact onpersonal growth, as if you plant a seed of poetry in your soul, and it willsprout and grow at its own tempo."
Jointly sponsored by China UnionPay,China Charities Aid Foundation for Children, and Children's Hope Foundation inHenan Province, this campaign has been launched in Shanghai in July2019, quicklybecoming a hot one after many Shanghainese posting its pictures on Wechat. Itwas extensively reported by many Chinese renowned media, such as CCTV4 NEWS,Xinhua News, CGNT, Dragon TV, and Global Times. The campaign in Shanghai achievedsuccess and brought poetry lessons to these children who created more excellentpoems to exhibit in this ongoing campaign in Xiamen.
Besides UnionPay Mobile Quick Pass,UnionPay APP and UnionPay QR code have been upgraded in this campaign to ensurethat people can pass their love better and safer. There are more than 1.4million users of UnionPay APP in Xiamen. Union APP and UnionPay Mobile QuickPass are accepted in 310 bus routes with 3,600 buses in this city. In addition,more than 230,000 retailers support payment by UnionPay Mobile Quick Pass andUnionPay QR code in UnionPay APP. The campaign will succeed to launch in Shenzhen,Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Beijing in the future, making the talents of thechildren in rural areas developing and shining.