She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “My fortune has come from society, thus it should go back to society. I will pay back to my motherland and my compatriots with all my heart.”
Yuzhen Chang – China
She works for Changji Store in Tangshan
From her modest beginnings selling soybeans Chang Yuzhen went on to become a successful businesswoman. She now puts the bulk of her wealth into helping others. Coming from a family of soldiers, she knows well their hardships and has set up a veterans’ home, a veterans’ welfare settlement, a soldiers’ resort village and an orphans’ village in the old Liberated Areas. She also set up an exhibition hall for patriotism education, an ecological garden for the protection of the environment, and has donated money to disaster-affected areas. (Read all on 1000peacewomen). Sorry, I can not reach other information in english about Yuzhen Chang, being certified to mean the right person.
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