The survival and development of the Company depends on national policies, market environment and support from all sectors of society. Only by giving back to the society while making profits from the society can the Company achieve harmonious co-existence and sustainable development. The Company strives to be an excellent corporate citizen, enthusiastically supports social welfare undertakings, and actively fulfills social responsibilities by means such as donating funds to support education, helping the poor, paying attention to socially disadvantaged groups, and engaging in environmental protection.
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Education Support

The Company adheres to the principle of poverty alleviation through education, and has been cultivating for a long time to make the children in poor areas receive good education, so that to form an educationally sustainable development.

  • 1Supporting Students in Poverty

    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.

  • 2Improving Kindergarten Environment

    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.

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Welfare Home Children Car

In 2019, the Company conducted a visit to the Sun Village Welfare Home in Banqiao Village, Zhaoquanying Town, Shunyi District, Beijing, organized the staff and children of Children’s Village to have dinner at a nearby restaurant, and carried out games, such as “who is the undercover", “monopoly", and “flying chess", and specially arranged a lucky draw. The staffs surprised the children with small gifts wrapped as prizes. The Company hopes to pass on this idea and let love gather and last.

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Environmental Protection
Public Welfare

The Company actively responds to the nation’s call for building a beautiful China, and organizes staff to participate in environmental protection public welfare activities to contribute to the protection of lucid waters and lush mountains.

  • 1Tree Planting in Spring

    In April 2019, the Company organized a spring tree planting activity in Zhuolu County, Zhangjiakou City, aiming to promote ecological civilization and build a green home together. Afforestation is a long-term work and we will carry forward the spirit of persistence, and actively participate in tree planting activities in Zhuolu to create a beautiful place.

  • 2Used Clothing Recycling Activities

    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.

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Trust Fund

CITIC CLSA Chairman Trust Fund is committed to providing financial and human support to vulnerable groups and communities in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. The core objective of the Trust Fund is to reduce poverty and provide subsidies to small and medium-sized NGOs in a range of fields including education, health and welfare, business and environmental corporates to support quantifiable and sustainable projects.

Since 2007, the Trust Fund has supported the lives of more than 500,000 people and provided more than USD27.7 million in funding to support the work of 125 grassroots NGOs.