U-Corp @ Huochai Box

Creative Media Production: The Legendary Journey and Charitable Pursuits of a Paralympic Gold-Medal Winner

This project aims to produce a professional creative video focused on Wang Jiachao’s extraordinary journey, highlighting social welfare initiatives and spreading positive energy within society. The video will delve into Wang’s perseverance, dedication, involvement in social services, and charitable contributions. To ensure the video reaches a wide audience across different media platforms (e.g., WeChat Video Channels and TikTok), we will adjust the content style, format, and duration to meet the specific requirements of each platform, ensuring maximum viewer engagement.

Final Outcome: Creative Video

Project Duration: 8-9 weeks

Estimated Recruitment: 3-4 individuals

Estimated Time Commitment: 6-10 hours/week

Huochai Box (⽕柴公益), established in 2017, is a public welfare project to empower and support rural education. The project builds an online teacher co-learning community group and local teacher growth centers to provide sustainable growth support for rural teachers. It also helps donate education resources, including books, courses, and mentors, to realize group co-construction and the common growth of rural teacher groups. Until September 2021, the project has matched more than 3 million CNY worth of donations of materials and funds to support more than 4,000 rural teachers and students. Under the influence of Huochai, more than 50 companies and organizations have donated funds, materials, customized public welfare projects to support rural schools.

For more information, please visit: http://www.huochaibox.com/

Wang Jiachao, born in Yunnan in 1991, tragically lost his left arm at the age of five. Instead of succumbing to his fate, he chose to uncover his potential, focusing on one-armed swimming, and joined the Yunnan Paralympic swimming team at the age of ten. After relentless effort, by 2003, he had become a nationally recognized Paralympic swimmer, securing numerous medals in three Paralympic and two Asian Paralympic Games. Following his retirement from swimming, Wang transitioned to Paralympic triathlon, participating in various competitions alone and achieving significant success. Beyond his athletic accomplishments, he actively engages in charitable affairs, becoming a member of Huochai Box Charity, using his story to positively impact the society, and enhancing public awareness and support for the organization.

This project aims to produce a professional creative video focused on Wang Jiachao’s extraordinary journey, highlighting social welfare initiatives and spreading positive energy within society. The video will delve into Wang’s perseverance, dedication, involvement in social services, and charitable contributions. To ensure the video reaches a wide audience across different media platforms (e.g., WeChat Video Channels and TikTok), we will adjust the content style, format, and duration to meet the specific requirements of each platform, ensuring maximum viewer engagement.

Number of students: 3-4

Students with previous video editing experience and strong communication skills will be preferred.

• 3-4 students work as a small group, dividing tasks and cooperating to complete the project together under the guidance of a mentor.
• Student teams will meet with U-Corp Team and Huochai regularly to share their progress. (Specific time is shown below)
• The workload will be 6-10 hours per week, and the project will last 8-9 weeks; the specific time schedule is shown in the table below:

Orientation: March 16

Regular Meetings with U-Corp & Huochai: Biweekly meetings

Final Presentation: TBD