NANCHANG September 1, (www.jx.xinhua.org) -- The Chunlei (Spring Buds) Program has benefited over 60,000 female school dropouts in Jiangxi province since the program was launched 1995.

Wu Zhenzhen (holding a board), from Shaxi village, Luohu town, Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, enrolled at Xiamen University, received 2000 yuan from local government

The program has so far received 16 million yuan in donations with which 60,000 girl students have returned to school, 10 Spring Buds schools have been built and 24 classes for female students are operated across the province. 225 girls, benefited from the program, have just entered universities this year.

Fourth-graders Liu Yan (left) and Gan Songliang, from Yichun No 8 Primary School in Jiangxi Province, smile after they got their new textbooks September 1, 2004.

The Spring Buds Program, launched by the Children's Foundation of China, the All-China Women's Federation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Nationalities Affairs Commission, is designed to pool donations from all walks of life throughout the country to help millions of young girls who are forced by poverty to drop out of school.