New York Times Journalists Visited HPI China Project

On June 11, Susan Chira, Foreign Editor of New York Times, Jim Yardley, Joseph Kahn and Michael Zhao, journalists of New York Times Beijing Office visited HPI China project at Dayi, accompanied by Mr. Chen Taiyong, Country Director of HPI China.

Ms. Chira knows Hiefer Project very well and made some donation with her two daughters before. They wanted to get an idea of how a poor rural Chinese village looks like and to see how HPI China is going to start a project or expand the ongoing passing on the gift project in a poor village.

They decided to visit the project with the shortest distance from Chengdu-Dayi. They left Chengdu at 10:30 am. On the way, Mr. Chen introduced our program and some rural situation of Sichuan to them and answered their questions about our development and our partnership with government. They reached one of the first recipients of HPI China, Ren Xuping's Fine Breed Rabbit Farm in Dayi at 12:15, and were shown around there. They were amazed by the success of Ren Xuping with Heifer's help. Then they headed to Chunming Village, Xieyuan Township of Dayi County, where Ren Xuping was going to pass on some rabbits over there. They visited 6 families and the school of the village. They discussed with farmers and village leader on how they would improve their living. Villagers all mentioned to raise rabbits and they were highly inspired by Ren Xuping. The journalist asked farmers a lot of questions and they were very impressed by the discussion Mr. Chen had with the farmers. They expressed hey would pay attention to Heifer's development in China.