How is the big-eyed girl Su Mingjuan who shouted "I want to study" now?

In 1991, a photo titled "Big Eyes" touched countless Chinese people. The girl in the photo was holding a pencil and looking straight ahead with her big eyes. With longing eyes, the photographer Mr. Xie Hailong wrote an inscription underneath - "I want to read".

Once the photo was published, it caused a sensation across the country. Major newspapers and magazines rushed to reprint it, and everyone began to pay attention to rural out-of-school children. China Hope Project even used it as its own propaganda logo, and the big-eyed girl in the picture , has also become the image representative of China’s Hope Project, and has since changed his own destiny.

Her name is Su Mingjuan. She was born in 1983 in a poor rural family in Jinzhai, Anhui Province. There are many mountains and little land here. Su Mingjuan’s family’s annual land harvest is only enough to feed them for more than three months, so her father Every day, he had to go up the mountain to cut firewood and go down to the river to catch fish in exchange for food rations. His mother raised pigs and silkworms at home to supplement the family income. Although the family lives in poverty, their daughter is well-behaved and sensible. The parents are very pleased and are happy every day.

However, seeing that their daughter is about to go to elementary school, the parents’ faces are becoming more and more sad because they really can’t afford the tuition fee of more than 100 yuan per semester. However, no matter how poor they are, they cannot afford an education. Their daughter must have read! Su's father and Su's mother borrowed money from relatives and friends while extending their working hours. Finally, they scraped together the tuition for their daughter's schooling.

The sensible Su Mingjuan knew that this opportunity to go to school was hard-won, so she studied harder and harder. She must be admitted to college! Let your parents live a good life!

At this time, the photographer Mr. Xie Hailong happened to be taking special photos for the Hope Project. He traveled to many poor areas and finally came to the Dabie Mountains and saw Su Mingjuan who was in class. This child was very attentive in class. She didn't even notice Xie Hailong who was slowly approaching her, and it was only then that Xie Hailong captured this valuable scene.

As the photo "Big Eyes" became popular, Su Mingjuan also became a famous person. Many people extended a helping hand to her. The first one was the photographer Mr. Xie Hailong, who bought Su Mingjuan Lots of school supplies and some money given to her parents. Then, countless well-wishers who had seen the photos reached out to her. They wrote to Su Mingjuan to cheer her up and wish her success in getting into college. There was always some money in these letters.

The most unforgettable thing for Su Mingjuan was a retired couple from Dalian. They sent their few and only pensions to Su Mingjuan and asked her to use them to pay for school fees. It wrote, "Don't worry about our lives." Su Mingjuan's father wanted to return the money to the old man immediately because his daughter had already received funding from others. But the old man refused to take it. After getting their consent, Su Mingjuan's family donated the money to Project Hope.

To this day, Su Mingjuan still remembers what her father said to her: "Girl, you must know how to repay kindness." This sentence was like a seed, planted in the heart of young Su Mingjuan, and it became more and more popular. As she grows older, she will definitely not be able to let down so many well-wishers!

In 2002, Su Mingjuan was successfully admitted to Anhui University. After learning about her situation, the school gave her a living allowance of 900 yuan every semester, but Su Mingjuan requested that the money be transferred to other poor students. . After graduating from college, Su Mingjuan worked in a bank. After receiving her salary, she would save a sum of money every month and donate it to the Hope Project. She hoped to help children like herself who had no money to study. The girl who was helped by others grew up and became a sponsor who helped others.

Now Su Mingjuan is the mother of two children. She was also elected as the deputy secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 2018, she was named "National Upward-looking and Good Youth". To this day, Su Mingjuan She is still enthusiastic about Project Hope and passes her love to more children.