希望工程,文化扶贫的创举在中国贫困地区,每年都有100多万儿童因家庭经济困难而失学,近十年来,累计有1000多万儿童徘徊在校门之外。经济的贫困导致文化教育的落后,而文化教育落后又制约着这些地区经济的发展。在这些地方,需要经济上的支持,更需要文化教育上的帮助。国家教委规定,每个中小学生应当拥有5本课外读物。而在贫困地区,连课本都买不起的孩子,哪里有钱买课外读物呢?“赠书交友”活动把城市孩子闲置、废弃的书引向农村,变废为宝,使 Hopes of Engineering and Cultural Poverty Alleviation In poor areas of China every year more than 1 million children are out of school due to their family’s financial difficulties. Over the past decade, more than 10 million children have wandered outside their schools. Economic poverty has led to the backwardness of education in culture, while the backward education has restricted the economic development in these regions. In these places, the need for financial support, but also the need for cultural and educational assistance. National Education Commission provides that each primary and secondary students should have 5 extra-curricular readings. And in poor areas, even the textbooks can not afford to buy children, where the money to buy extracurricular books? “Book friends ” activities to urban children idle, abandoned books lead to the countryside, turning waste into treasure, so that