The Company adheres to the combination of “Poverty Alleviation through Education”, and actively carries out educational poverty alleviation, unites industry forces, to fulfill social responsibilities.

The Company has been helping the poor students in Guyuan County, Hebei Province for 13 consecutive years since 2007. In 2012, the Company directly connected with Guyuan No.1 Middle School, accurately identified the impoverished students, established a mechanism of joint funding with the local government, and formed a good mechanism of “Poverty Alleviation through Education” through face-to-face communication between staffs and impoverished students and joint participation in fun activities. In 2019, the company’s staff representatives and nearly 100 poor students formed cross team to participate in the cultural and sports competition. In the activity, the staff representatives took practical actions to deliver love and positive energy to the impoverished students.

In March and September 2019, the Company’s volunteer team visited teachers and students of Beijing Qinghonglan Migrant Children’s School twice to carry out public welfare activities. Volunteers provided scholarships for academic excellence and incentive grants to students, donated consolation money to teachers, and donated office supplies and living materials to the school to encourage students to live a healthy life and study hard.

In 2019 in Shaanxi Province, the Company helped the students in poverty to realize their dream of university, and guided the local institutions to give guidance on employment to the students. We “teach a man to fish” in addition to “give a man a fish”, to enhance endogenous dynamics in poverty-stricken areas out of poverty and solved the problem of intergenerational transmission of poverty.

The recipients of assistance are 17 national-level poverty-stricken counties in 23 counties (districts) and 6 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in Shaanxi Province. Staffs of Shaanxi Branch donated RMB56,438 to contribute to targeted poverty alleviation.

In addition, the branches of CITIC Futures donated RMB106,000 to the students in poverty in Bailu Primary School in Wuxi County, Chongqing City, Mike Village Primary School in Jinyang County, Sichuan Province, and Qiuli Village in Xijiang Town, Congjiang County, Guizhou Province.

In 2019, the Company signed a cooperation agreement with the Education, Technology and Sports Bureau of Yanchang County in Shaanxi Province, and donated RMB150,000 to help the kindergarten in Yanchang County to improve the learning and living environment for children and promote their healthy growth.

The seventh and eighth rural kindergartens opened in April 2019 assisted by the Company in Shenza County, Tibet Autonomous Region.

In order to practice the concept of low-carbon life, improve the use efficiency of used goods and help vulnerable groups, the Company organized the “Old with Love” used clothes recycling activity in June 2019. The purpose of the activity is to collect clean, non-damaged and useful used clothes of staffs, and make donations with environmental public welfare platform, so as to raise staffs’ awareness of environmental protection. More than 200 pieces of clothing, totaling 81.5 kg, were collected and sent to public welfare organizations. In the autumn of 2019, the Company once again held the clothing donation activity of “Sending Warmth and Love”, and received 508 pieces of clothing, all of which were donated to the volunteer team of the public welfare organization. After initial sorting, washing and disinfection, the clothes were donated to remote mountainous areas in Sichuan Province, Qinghai Province, Tibet Autonomous Region and etc., for distribution to the elderly and children in need.