导读:这位清华教授捐出所有积蓄,却在癌症晚期舍不得用好药;他薪酬不菲,一家三口每月生活费却只有100美元;退休后在某著名企业担任顾问,都自带铺盖、炊具,租住普通民房……
The story of a retired Tsinghua University professor who anonymously donated his life savings to poor students despite being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer has touched Chinese netizens.
清华大学退休教授被诊断为肺癌晚期,却将自己的毕生积蓄捐献给贫困学生,他的故事感动了中国网民。
According to the Guangming Daily, Zhao Jiahe, a retired finance professor at Tsinghua University, donated his life savings of 15 million yuan ($2 million) to support over 2,000 high school students across the country.
《光明日报》报道,清华大学金融学退休教授赵家和倾毕生积蓄1500余万元(200万美元)捐助2000多名高中学生。
Despite being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the age of 78 in 2011, he continued to donate his money to support poor students in high schools in West China, choosing to buy only inexpensive generic medicines for himself.
2011年,78岁的赵家和被诊断为肺癌晚期。但是,他仍然坚持捐助中国西部的贫困高中生,只能给自己买那些廉价的普通药物。
"The plentiful savings could have assured him the best treatment," Liu Xun, one of Zhao’s former students, told the newspaper.
“这些积蓄足以让他接受最好的治疗,”赵家和以前的学生刘军告诉《光明日报》。
Zhao started to anonymously support poverty-stricken high school students from all over the country in 2006, when his savings reached 5 million yuan.
2006年,赵家和共有500万积蓄,他开始匿名资助全国各地的贫困高中生。
In 2012, he expanded his philanthropic efforts by establishing the Gansu Xinghua Youth Education Foundation, which supported 1,000 students in Northwest China’s Gansu Province.
2012年,赵家和开始扩展自己的慈善事业。他成立的甘肃兴华青少年助学基金会资助了中国西北甘肃省的1000名学生。
Zhao began teaching at Tsinghua University after graduating from the school’s Department of Electronic Engineering in 1955, and he later helped establish the School of Economics and Management in 1985.
1955年,毕业于清华大学电子工程系的赵家和留校任教。1985年,在赵家和的帮助下,清华大学的经济管理学院成立。
Zhao left a lucrative position at the University of Texas in the US in 2001 in order to return to China to support students. He succumbed to lung cancer in 2012 and donated his body to scientific research.
2001年,为了回国帮助学生,赵家和放弃了在德克萨斯大学不菲的薪酬。2012年,赵家和死于肺癌,将自己的身体捐献给科学研究。