The Songkran Festival, which has a history of thousands of years in the yellow-robed Buddhist country of Myanmar, is the most important annual festival for the Myanmar people. Splashing water is meant to support, purify, and bless, it is to support and filial piety, and it is to appreciate the dedication and sacrifice of our ancestors. The Songkran Festival is also a grand celebration for the people of Myanmar.

April 13-17, 2018, is the traditional Songkran Festival in Myanmar. Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group held a charity event of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly in the Kayin State Yatai Special Economic Zone (Asia Pacific City) for hundreds of elderly people in Shuigougu Village, celebrating a happy festival with the elderly in Shuigougu , sent blessings and condolences to the elderly.

At 9:00 a.m. on April 17, the sun was shining brightly. Entrusted by the chairman of the board of directors of Yatai International Holdings Group, the group’s senior management team drove a truck full of rice, cooking oil and other daily necessities to Shuigou Valley Village, Kayin State, and gathered with the group. Villagers in the square spend the festival together.

At the festival ceremony, the host first conveyed the congratulations from the chairman of the board of directors of Yatai Group to everyone. Then, the management of Yatai Group offered auspicious blessings and sprinkled holy water with auspicious meaning to the elderly people in Shuigougu Village in accordance with the local customs of Myanmar. When everyone distributed bags of rice, buckets of cooking oil and other condolences and cash red packets to all the elderly, people were very excited and the scene was very lively.

Chairman – Guan asked the entire Yatai International Holdings Group to “be charitable, inherit Chinese virtues, create value and actively repay the society”. The Myanmar Asia-Pacific Special Economic Zone (Yatai City) has also been adhering to this-discipline. The charity event held on April 17 to respect the elderly and love them is the embodiment of putting this teaching into practice.

The successful completion of this event has profound and long-lasting significance for carrying forward the traditional Chinese virtues and enhancing the friendly exchanges between the people of China and Myanmar.