The Association launched the Youth Scholarship Program in 1995. At first, the Program awarded scholarships to 9 students a year, all children of members, with a total amount of 8,000 US dollars. Today, the number of scholarship-awarded students has increased to almost 30, including outstanding university students, the CUM score is higher than 3.5; the candidates students of the senior high school, which their total SAT score should be higher than 2000; and the candidates students of junior middle school and primary pupils, with average score are over 90. Therefore, yearly it is with the total amount growing to over 15,000 US dollars a year. The Association has included the scholarship issue in the agenda of its annual membership conference. The list of scholarship awardees is decided upon collectively, announced publicly and awarded in a ceremony. Scholarships are also awarded to those who have done very well in Chinese, in order to promote Chinese or their mother tongue. This scholarship awarding program has become an established rules-based practice of far-reaching significance and it is also a major community-service event of the Association. The public opinions have spoken highly of this practice. The practice has continued for more than ten years, thanks to the generous donations by fellow countrymen originally from the three provinces and prominent personages. Mr. Xing-jiu Ying and his son Dr. Li-ren Ying in particular have commendably made considerable contributions to this Program. We will never forget their efforts in this regard. Our appreciation should also go to Mr. Yun-xi Hu, Chairman of the Scholarship Program, for his wise leadership and skillful management of the fund. Here, we wish to express our respect and gratitude to all who have contributed to the Program. At the same time, we hope those who have got the scholarships will continue to study hard, live up to the ardent expectations of the Association members and repay their gratitude to the society with service after completion of their studies. 

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These respectable elders of the Association care both the proper upbringing of the kids of the Association members and education cause in their homeland. Mr. A-liang Wang and his wife, both members of the Association, lived a very simple life and literally saved every penny they could. They would, for instance, spare no efforts in crossing several blocks in order to buy cheaper milk. However, in early 1980s when they heard that people in their hometown in China wished to build schools, pavilions or road, they donated about 100,000 US dollars for these projects without any hesitation. This is just one of numerous examples in the Association. It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred to cultivate people. 

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Education helps rejuvenation of a nation and a country. Education has lifted the Chinese Americans of the older generation out of their traditional trades and enabled them to join the mainstream in the United States. Education will surely help produce a new generation of cultural elites. It will help raise the overall image of Chinese Americans and hence their political and economic status. In short, the establishment of the San Kiang Youth Scholarship Program is a bold and significant policy decision made by the elders of the Association and it will benefit the descendants of the Association members from generation to generation.