On April 22, 2019, Wuxi Binhu District "focus on NPC Deputies" Media Interview Group went to Phoenix Artist Material and Huazhuang Central Primary School to conduct a comprehensive interview and report on the performance of duties of Ms. Zou Fang, deputy to Binhu District People’s Congress. As a deputy to the National People’s Congress and the general manager of Phoenix Artist Material, Ms. Zou Fang is concerned about the needs of the people and the public opinion of the community during her term of office as a deputy to the National People’s Congress.

“Being a deputy to the National People’s Congress is not only a title nor an honor, but a duty. To be a good deputy to the National People’s Congress, we must live up to the expectations of the voters, truly reflect the aspirations of the people, and safeguard the interests of the people.” Ms. Zou Fang said. Since she was elected as deputy to the District People’s Congress in 2016, deputy Zou Fang, with the pragmatic style and delicate persistence of "great things in the world must be done in detail" and "spring breeze turns into rain and moistens things silently", has made great efforts to promote the fair development of Art Education in the popularization and promotion of art education.
In one’s position, one should be more responsible. Since representative Zou Fang became the president of Phoenix Art Training Center, she has been carrying educational feelings and adhering to the principle of effective integration of private and public teaching resources. It cooperates with Jiangsu Xishan Senior High School to run an art class, providing free teaching and evaluation of college entrance examination courses for Jiangsu Xishan Senior High School. From teachers to curriculum system, it is provided and implemented by Phoenix Art Training Center. So far, it has successfully ushered in the third graduates, the admission rate of each undergraduate course reaches 100%. At the same time, it also cooperates with Furen Middle School, Foreign Language Middle School and other provincial four-star high schools to provide more high school students with artistic dreams with professional art college entrance examination courses, so that students can understand and develop their own strengths, and also provide more ways for students to become talents.
In addition, Phoenix Art Training Center also actively provides Binhu District Primary School with an off-campus comprehensive practice base, using rich art education resources, create various kinds of creative art courses, stimulate students’ interest in art, cultivate children’s aesthetic quality. With the joint efforts of Zou Fang and the teachers of the base, Phoenix Art Training Center has successively obtained the "Xingzhi Da Xue Tang" - Wuxi social practice base for primary and secondary students, national youth art education quality development base, Wuxi base for national art examination, national art education and research base for primary and secondary schools, and East China base of Beijing Touch Nature International School. So far, the center has provided various kinds of extracurricular social practice activities for tens of thousands of primary and secondary school students in Wuxi, greatly enriching students’ extracurricular art experience activities, and becoming the “back garden” of public primary school art education.
Representative Zou Fang, while doing her job well, actively fulfills her social responsibilities, she is enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings, she makes donations to all sectors of society to help students study every year. Furthermore, Phoenix Artist Material donate to the Charity Association of Binhu District and other social sectors to help the people in need and organize various kinds of donation activities for many times. With the expansion of the scale of the group's foreign investment, Phoenix Artist Material also spread the corporate culture of enthusiastic public welfare to Shuyang and other places, even overseas. Since 2005, Shuyang Phoenix Artist Material Co., Ltd. has donated money and materials to local children in Shuyang for many times. Phoenix Artist Material in Vietnam has organized activities for many times to help local needy employees renovate their houses and grant grants to their children. Since 2008, Mangnong Primary School in Xincheng Township, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province has been renovated for many years by the help of Phoenix Artist Material, which has greatly improved the teaching environment. As a result, Ms. Zou Fang has also served as the honorary principal of the school, enabling ethnic minority children to enjoy the advanced achievements of art education. In 2016, she launched the "Phoenix lecture hall" art public welfare propaganda action, and issued 500,000 yuan scholarship every year. In 2017, Zou Fang participated in the "dream of one heart · love of the Phoenix" donation activities, donating 100,000 yuan in cash for art teacher in Jiuquan Primary and Secondary School training and 100,000 yuan in painting material sets for minority students in mountainous areas.
“Being a deputy to the National People's Congress is not only a job I am keen on and persistent, but also a heavy responsibility. It is very meaningful and I have no regrets. I like this way of working and living, and I will be more determined to go on like this.” Zou Fang said.