美籍华人聂圣哲在他的家乡安徽休宁县先后创办了一所“德胜木工学校”和一所“德胜平民学校”。3年多来,德胜木工学校将62名农家子弟培养成熟练木工。借助德胜平民学校,聂圣哲经江苏省民政厅正式批准设立中国第一个平民教育基金会——长江平民教育基金会,接受社会捐赠,目的是“为更多勤劳、厚道的贫苦家庭的孩子创造得到平民教育的条件”。 Chinese-American Nie Shengzhe in his hometown of Anhui Xiuning County has set up a “Desheng Woodworking School” and a “Desheng civilian school.” In the past three years, Desheng Carpentry School has trained 62 peasant families to become skilled carpenters. With Desheng civilian schools, Nie Shengzhe formally approved the establishment of China’s first civilian education foundation - the Yangtze Civic Education Foundation, donated by the community for the purpose of “more children of hard-working, kind and poor families Create conditions for obtaining civilian education ”.