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Chen Weigao's Red-themed talks: 17 years of public-benefit reading, donating 108,000 books, lighting up classrooms in the mountains Selected for the China Good People List, retracing the Long March route to tell red stories, continuing to make strong efforts in educational charity
Recently, Chen Weigao, a red propaganda speaker from Chengdong Community, Zhaobaoshan Subdistrict, Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, was selected for the third batch of the 2026 "China Good People List." Now nearly 80 years old, he has long traveled around various places, telling red stories through his own experience, while also continuing to devote himself to publicinterest reading and educational assistance initiatives.
Chen Weigao was born in Zhenhai in 1947. At 17, he joined the army and once went to the battlefield to support Vietnam in its war against the United States. After being transferred to civilian service, he long participated in publicinterest poverty alleviation, traveling many times to Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, and other places to help build schools and libraries, and to sponsor outofschool children in returning to school.
After retirement, Chen Weigao continued to carry out redthemed outreach and has repeatedly retraced the Long March route. Drawing on his own experience and historical facts, he has brought education on revolutionary traditions into classrooms and schools in mountainous areas. The publicinterest reading campaign "Book Knowledge of the World" that he initiated has continued for 17 years, with a total of 108,000 books donated, reaching 225 schools in Guizhou, Sichuan, and other places.