Meanwhile the assistant secretary-general of the Chinese Youth Development Fund (CYDF), Xu Yongguang, also paid a visit to Nan in Hong Kong. The CYDF is most famous for "Project Hope," which gave poor rural children a shot at education, and once Xu heard Nan's ideas on classical education, he put into action a successor project for classical studies based around ancient poetry and classical texts.
另一方面，以扶助農村貧困失學兒童的「希望工程」揚名國際的大陸中國青少年發展基金會，其副秘書長許永光在香港拜訪南懷瑾，聽到他對兒童讀經的想法，一拍即合，繼希望工程之後，開始進行「中華古詩文經典誦讀工程」。