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Life is an education Anna Pao Sohmen has devoted her life and wealth to educating others, reports Wang Hongyi in Shanghai, who learns more about her charitable initiatives. Anna Pao Sohmen believes its better to give than receive. Pao Sohmen is the eldest daughter of the former Hong Kong shipping magnate Pao Yue-kong, who founded Worldwide Shipping Group. He bought his first second-hand ship in 1955, and in 10 years grew the fleet into the worlds biggest shipping company. This enabled the entrepreneur from Ningbo, Zhejiang province, to become an internationally feted businessman and billionaire. In China, however, he is best known as a philanthropist who set up universities, libraries and scholarship schemes. Born to great wealth, Pao Sohmen, however, believes: The love and education father gave us is far more important than wealth. She fondly recalls her father telling her in his Ningbo dialect to be thrifty, not to rely on parents and family, read more, learn and accumulate knowledge, and make a living independently. She has lived up to her fathers teachings in every aspect of her life. As a youth, she only had one pair of shoes and when the curtain at home was worn, she turned it into bags. She lived on just her scholarship when she studied in the United States and when she returned to Hong Kong, she earned a living by teaching. In a time that favored boys over girls, my father placed a great deal of importance on educating us. If not, it would have been impossible for me to do well in my studies and have what I have today. Over the past decades, Pao Sohmen has burnished her fathers legacy by supporting educational charities. Additionally, she has made it her goal to promote Chinese culture internationally. In the 1980s, with her help and financial support, Eton College opened the first Mandarin secondary school department in the UK, one of the most popular courses at the school. 1 In 1983, Pao Sohmen founded the first Mandarin-English bilingual and bicultural sc