The Candle Project is a folk social commonweal course aiming to help countryside teachers of underdeveloped districts to ease the living difficulty and enhance professional quality. Its tenet is to strive for the support and aid from groups and individuals who care about the situation of countryside teachers and education course of China's countryside and help to enhance the teaching level of countryside teachers by means of life subsidy, encouragement and training so as to promote the development of countryside education course in China, impel the enhancement of civilian quality and social development. The detailed content includes: to offer life subsidy to specially poor countryside teachers; organize excellent teachers and education and training organizations with corresponding qualification to provide continuous education aid and training for poor teachers; select typical underdeveloped districts to carry out demonstration projects of candle light bases; explore effective and continuous development road for the improvement of living conditions of poor teachers and the enhancement of their working ability; choose a group of excellent teachers from underdeveloped remote mountain areas regularly to issue awards; organize supporting networks of relevant organizations to provide all kinds of support like capital, books and teaching facilities to schools and teachers in countryside.