On the afternoon of September 4th, Yao Ming, the top star of China men's basketball team, came to Renmin University of China to attend the launching ceremony of "Love Tour of Chinese Bone Marrow Bank Campus", to extract hematopoietic stem cells on the spot, and called on people, especially teenagers, to actively join the ranks of volunteers in bone marrow donor to help leukemia patients.
"I hereby solemnly promise that once the patient is successfully matched, I will definitely donate bone marrow." According to China News Service, Beijing, September 4th, at the launching ceremony of "Love Tour of Chinese Bone Marrow Bank Campus", Yao Ming, who holds a red heart model, said, "It only takes a little courage to donate bone marrow to save lives. I hope that young friends will join the Chinese bone marrow bank to benefit Chinese people all over the world. "
Driven by the "Little Giant", two college men's basketball teams, Tsinghua University and China Renmin University, both took hematopoietic stem cells on the spot and became volunteers among bone marrow donor people.
As a volunteer of China Bone Marrow Bank, Yao Ming will also mobilize his teammates of the national team to participate in the related public welfare promotion activities of China Bone Marrow Bank, publicize the scientific truth and social significance of donating hematopoietic stem cells to people, and appeal to the society to donate money to China Bone Marrow Bank and the treatment of leukemia patients.
Su Juxiang, vice president of China Red Cross Society, said that college students are important donors of hematopoietic stem cells and bone marrow. Up to now, nearly 300 volunteers from China Bone Marrow Bank have donated bone marrow to patients, one fifth of whom are college students. She hopes to dispel people's misunderstanding and doubts about donating bone marrow through this activity, and appeals to more college students to donate bone marrow and save more lives.
Fight SARS
In 2003, China fought against SARS, and Yao Ming raised funds through a three-hour TV program. In addition, he also recorded a public welfare propaganda film against SARS for Shanghai TV Station, and attended the farewell ceremony of 63 Shanghai military medical staff who went to Beijing to support the fight against SARS.
AIDS
Yao Ming, who just renewed his contract with the Houston Rockets of the United States, won a top salary contract worth more than $75 million, nearly $700 million in five years. Yao Ming said that once he got the money, he would take part in some public welfare activities and make donations. On September 22nd, I will go to Hong Kong to participate in an activity about AIDS, conveying the theme of "AIDS is the enemy, but AIDS patients are friends". In addition, there was a flood in New Orleans, and many refugees went to Houston. He would try his best to help them.
Charitable donations are hundreds of thousands, but they spend every penny on their own lives.
A few days ago, Yao Ming returned to Beijing from the United States. When he got off the plane, it was time for dinner. The leaders and friends who came to meet him asked him: Where do you want to eat? Unexpectedly, Yao Ming asked, "Is the canteen of the Training Bureau open? Let's go to the canteen to eat. " The words sound just fell and everyone laughed, joking with him one after another, saying that you are now an international superstar billionaire, and you are not afraid of fall in price when you eat in the canteen? Yao Ming solemnly replied: "Saving is a little!"
According to an article in Hunan Daily, if you want to be rich, Yao Ming does have money. However, Yao Ming, who has leapt into the ranks of NBA superstars, still maintains the true colors of an ordinary player. He is unpretentious, lives a low-key life, and still spends money carefully. He must not spend money indiscriminately, and must not get into the bad habit of spending money lavishly. Not only does he not seek luxury and vanity at ordinary times, but he also entertains his friends for dinner. He is also simple, eat well, instead of ordering a large table of dishes to show off his wealth and style, and finally wasted more than half. Even if he fetes his fiancee Ye Li's teammates in America, that is, Ye Li's "family", he should be regarded as a distinguished guest. He also pays great attention to saving money, but makes everyone eat happily.
It's really unfair to say that Yao Ming is "too picky". When it comes to spending money, especially charitable donations, supporting disaster areas and donating to public welfare undertakings such as mountain education, he is more generous than anyone, spending hundreds of thousands at a time, which is very touching. You know, although Yao Ming is rich, all his money is earned by hard-earned money games that are almost close to hand-to-hand combat. Young, with many injuries, I will never be able to fight. At that time, his treatment, livelihood and family support will depend on this money. However, Yao Ming is well aware of the important principle. He uses money "sparingly" but donates to public welfare undertakings generously. No wonder he was rated as a national model worker by Gao Piao, and was named as "Top Ten People Who Moved China".