The Xiaoping Education Foundation Limited is a Hong Kong-registered non-profit, founded in 2001 by philanthropist Mr. P.H. Lau and formally established in 2006. Independent of any religious or political affiliation, we have spent 25 years doing just one thing — education — so that every child in China's remote mountain regions, regardless of background, has an equal place to start.
As one of only 787 registered foreign NGOs operating in China, the Foundation has supported Tsinghua University's distance-learning programme (30 education centres nationwide), built schools, and funded scholarships for underprivileged students across the country.
Since 2001 we have built and funded over 400 schools and teaching blocks across nine provinces — Guizhou, Sichuan, Gansu, Guangxi, Guangdong, Qinghai, Yunnan, Jiangxi and Shaanxi — so that children no longer walk three or four hours to reach a classroom, and can learn in spaces that are safe, spacious and their own.
Run jointly with provincial education authorities, the Xiaoping Scholarship supports bright students from families in hardship through high school and university. To date we have helped over 30,000 high-school students and nearly 1,000 university students, whose paths now reach 395 institutions of higher education across China.
Our students have gone on to China's most prestigious universities — Peking Union Medical College, Fudan, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Zhejiang and more. One graduate of Peking Union Medical College, once a child in a mountain village, is now pursuing a PhD in Germany on a national scholarship — proof of what "a small equality" can grow into.
On 27 April 2026 the Foundation signed a donation agreement with Tsinghua University to support its Graduate Student Teaching Corps, funding living stipends for 24 outstanding volunteers heading to remote regions to teach. Following the distance-learning stations we funded in 2005, we are proud to join hands again two decades on.
Our schools span nine provinces across rural China. Click a marker on the map to see each school's name and location.
When you have the chance to help others, lend them a hand — just as we lend you one today. Wherever life takes you, keep the words "Xiaoping" in your heart.
Unit 1703, 918 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
xpef@xiaopingef.org
IRDHK: 91/7825
Director of Operations: Lee Kei Lau
Twenty-five years of building schools and walking alongside our students.
