2011-12-06
November 29-30, the Central Government Poverty Relief Development Conference was held in Beijing. The conference awarded individuals and entities that had made great contributions to poverty relief development. Tongwei Group received the award of the advanced entity of national poverty relief development.
After selection and review for almost 8 months, the committee awarded 401 entities and 299 individuals, the exemplars that had received wide recognition.
Tongwei Group attaches great importance to Tongwei’s social responsibility. The company has been actively involved in charity and public welfare establishments: 1992, “Tongwei – Hope Project Award Fund” was founded. It has provided financial assistance to about 2,000 poor students and excellent teachers in poverty-stricken areas in Sichuan including Liangshanzhou, Bazhong, Guangyuan, and Dazhou; “Tongwei Aquaculture Education Award Fund” was founded. Tongwei donated ￥1 million RMB to Sichuan Agricultural University for its teaching building construction; 1998, Tongwei donated ￥ 3.2 million RMB for the flood-stricken Hunan and Hubei provinces; Tongwei sponsored scientific arctic expedition; In 2007, “China Siyuan Program• Sunshine Project” launched by China Democratic National Construction Association was initiated. This program aims to send high-quality, high-efficiency and eco-friendly household electricity to underdeveloped regions, especially densely inhabited areas of ethnic minorities. For this goal, Tongwei budgets an annual fund of 5 million RMB for 10 consecutive years for scientific solar energy research and new products R &D. On May 12th, 2008, Tongwei offered 12.5 million RMB to Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province right after the 8-magnitude earthquake. Up to now, Tongwei’s total value of donation has exceeded ￥200 million RMB.