A high school student will donate 75,000 yuan ($12,000) to help build a library for a middle school in the city of Changzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, Modern Express reported Wednesday.

Liu Jiahao, a student at Changzhou Senior High School, will give years of his saved pocket money, totaling 75,000 yuan, to help Lanling Middle School in Changzhou.

Liu said the library will help poverty-stricken students and inspire more people to read.

Books including classics, history, science and reference will be added to the library several times a year, he said.

Liu Mingkun, father of Liu Jiahao said the money is from his allowance and New Year lucky money saved by his son for years.

More than 70 percent of pupils at Lanling Middle school are migrant children who study in inadequate conditions, said Liu Mingkun, who runs a local catering company and has donated 1.5 million yuan ($238,000) to set up an education fund for the school in 2010.

"I support him strongly when I heard his idea", the father said.