Zhang Lei led the Gaochun Public Welfare Fund to multi-dimensionally invest in education and force the public welfare 2.0 era

The graduation season has always been more than just a departure.

In addition to various or warm or wonderful graduation photos, the principal’s and teachers’ speeches have been brushed up in recent years. The outstanding alumni’s gratitude and reassurance, or the big handwriting, or the heartfelt, sometimes more than the protagonists of graduation More eye-catching.

On June 23, Zhang Lei, founder and CEO of Gaochun Capital, announced that he would donate 300 million yuan to his alma mater, Renmin University of China, and set up the “Senior High Education Education Development Fund of Renmin University of China”.

It is understood that the donation of 300 million yuan will be mainly used to promote the cooperation between the NPC and world-renowned universities to further enhance the international influence and competitiveness of the NPC; support the introduction and construction of a world-class faculty team for the NPC, and cultivate a combination of top talents; The NPC has established a new cross-discipline to provide long-term support.

As one of China's most successful investors, Zhang Lei's Gaochun Capital now manages more than $30 billion in funds, including not only pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family funds, but also the world's top university endowments. . It is reported that at least six American Ivy League schools, including Yale, Stanford and Princeton, are high-income investors. Zhang Lei himself was elected as the first Chinese manager of Yale University in 315 years. It can be said that Zhang Lei and Gao Wei have a natural connection with the famous American universities represented by the Ivy League. Therefore, in addition to the injection of funds, Zhang Lei and the Gaochun Public Welfare Fund donated to the NPC, and how to digest and absorb foreign advanced education concepts is also a big point of view.

Zhang Lei’s gift to the 80th anniversary of his alma mater’s grandmother’s congregation is simple and direct, and it has caused a lot of sensation in the industry. At the same time, it is a strong shot, which will help the uncertain future generations to boost their hearts and precipitate a Beliefs and expectations for the future.

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Zhang Lei graduated from Henan Zhumadian High School in 1990 and was admitted to Renmin University of China for international finance with the first score of the Lima Branch. In 1998, he entered the Yale University with a scholarship. In 2005, he returned to China to establish Gaochun Capital. After 12 years of development, Gaochun has become one of the largest investment funds in asset management in Asia.

Zhang Lei has repeatedly stressed on different occasions, "In my life, every step of development has benefited a lot from education." He said: "I have been committed to cultivating talents outside of investment, hoping to be in our On the stage of the times, we saw a group of young people with ideals, academics, Chinese and Western, and ancient and modern scholars, and both arts and sciences stand out."

“Investment is to invest”. In the investment industry, Zhang Lei’s insight and cognition of talents is more instinctive. Gaochun Capital has also been eagerly seeking, "the upper limit of the fall of the Yellow Spring", aimed at finding practitioners with a great view of the landscape. However, the reality is that a truly good company is limited, and entrepreneurs who have a real pattern, a mind and an executive are even more limited. How to continuously explore young talents and how to provide high-quality talents for outstanding enterprises has made Zhang Lei and Gao Wei feel urgent.

To this end, at the tenth anniversary of the founding of Gaochun, Zhang Lei once set a big banner: "We need to help talents form positive energy, energy circle, energy ball, bloom themselves, warm others." In the future, Gaochun Capital We will “focus on our hearts, be self-disciplined”, focus on China, focus on young people, and invest in the future. Ten years of trees, for a hundred years!

Zhang Lei said that Gao Hao did this.

Heavy positions have been on the road

The era of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" is inseparable from the rush of innovation and entrepreneurship. Zhang Lei and Gao Wei have always paid close attention to the cultivation of innovative talents, and continue to exert their efforts in building a platform for the development of outstanding young talents for the future.

In 2011, with the joint support of the President of the National People's Congress and the President of Yale, Zhang Lei donated the establishment of the High Court Research Institute at the National People's Congress. Adhering to the concept of “multiple integration, value investment, and practice innovation”, Gaoli Research Institute has opened the first double-degree talent training program for Internet finance undergraduate programs in China, and launched the “Gaoli Yingcai Bloom Program” for students from famous universities around the world. "Gao Li female leadership SHEro her strength training program", "Gaoli International Education - Yale, Stanford, Duke University Summer School" and "Sorghum Gaoli Winter and Summer Training Camp" and other projects have trained more than 1,000 outstanding young students Actively explore innovative models for cross-age, interdisciplinary, and inter-academic integration. By the end of 2016, Gaoli Research Institute has united a group of practical tutor resources from finance, enterprises, government, universities and other fields, and has held more than 100 lecture courses. The platform for the development of outstanding young talents for the future has begun to take shape.

A good education platform can shape a person's temperament and pattern, and direct dialogue with outstanding business leaders can enhance a person's realm and vision. Deeply aware of this, Zhang Lei, who benefits from education, is also actively coordinating resources and focusing on promoting fairness in educational resources.

Since 2010, Zhang Lei has donated funds for the Gaochun Scholarship and 107 Scholarships for his hometown's alma mater, Henan Zhumadian High School. It is the first scholarship to be donated by alumni in Zhumadian City and set up in the name of the Alumni Association. As of 2016, it has helped hundreds of graduates from Henan secondary schools. In 2016, Gaochun also comprehensively optimized and upgraded the scholarship program, increased the amount of funding, and further integrated the resources of the Institute of Higher Education to provide students with comprehensive long-term follow-up training and comprehensive three-dimensional services.

In 2010, Zhang Lei also sponsored the first 100-year vocational school in China, and donated a Zhengzhou 100-year high school vocational school to provide students with poor educational resources for the poor families, free vocational education, and develop students' social skills. In addition, in order to enable more children to receive quality education and to realize their full potential, Zhang Lei also actively funded the “Reading Room” project. The project aims to change the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on gender equality in literacy and education.

In order to further promote the fair resolution of China's educational resources, Zhang Lei visited the world's famous universities several times and actively promoted the introduction of overseas high-quality higher education resources. In July 2016, invited by Zhang Lei, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) President Keen Bullock and his party visited Henan to discuss Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools.

Multi-pronged education in the era of public welfare 2.0

The "China People's University Gaochun Gaoli Education Development Fund" set up by RMB 300 million this time is regarded as a highlight of Gao Hao's heavy talents.

On the day of the donation of Gaochun, it coincided with the graduation ceremony of the People's University of China in 2017. Zhang Lei, as an outstanding alumnus of the National People's Congress, delivered a speech. In the Century Hall of the National People's Congress, standing on the campus that ignited youthfulness and enthusiasm in the past, facing the familiar teaching building and canteen, library and playground, Zhang Lei was excited when he was in the 7,000 schoolmates. He started from his own experience. Tell the schoolmates to learn - choose friends who do time, Thinkbig, Thinklong!

As a returning student, Zhang Lei was filled with emotions. The speech was repeatedly interrupted by thunderous applause. When Zhang Lei said, “Giving a rose, the hand has a fragrance. After the graduation ceremony, I will sign a donation agreement with the school, donate 3 100 million yuan." Cheers on the scene.

This is a cheer for Zhang Lei, a cheer for the National People's Congress, and a cheer for education! In fact, this kind of cheer has always been.

Since its establishment in 2005, Gao Song’s investment in education has never stopped. From the establishment of scholarships in the Zhumadian High School in his hometown, to long-term support for migrant children to study and dream, he became the first founder of West Lake University in China with the basic research as the fulcrum. Zhang Lei and Gao Wei’s investment and support for education have covered secondary and vocational education. And multi-stage public welfare projects such as higher education, its coverage is not limited.

From the simple financial donation of the Yale School of Management to the education investment of the “transfusion” and “hematopoietic” of the National People’s Congress, Zhang Lei spent a lot of time and resources, such as personally taking the podium as a student. Sharing, participating in various activities including the closing ceremony, inviting many well-known entrepreneurs and friends to teach students, recommending students to the most innovative enterprises to learn and practice, etc., the investment in education is not deep.

The past has not gone, the future has come. Under the empathy of benefiting from the education of education, and under the deep cognition and strong desire of the investment industry for the heavy-duty talents, under the guidance of the concept of “education is the investment that never quits”, we believe that education will change our destiny. Zhang Lei is leading the Gaochun Public Welfare Fund into the era of public welfare 2.0.

Editor in charge: Ma Qianli