SHANGHAI Jiao Tong University launched a charity fund yesterday to expand a training program for teachers from schools in China's rural areas.

The teacher training program, launched by a student charity group Siyuan Loving Club in the university 10 years ago, can now train 90 teachers from China's less developed central and western regions every year.

Zhu Jian, deputy party chief of the university, said that Jiao Tong is looking for support for the program with more resources such as trainers, student volunteers and donations.