Preface
At the same time of leading Country Garden to grow bigger and stronger, promoting the regional urbanization and contributing to the construction of the state, the founder of Country Garden Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung also actively calls for sustainable charities, which means through ‘hemopoiesis charities’, such as skill training and providing job offers, to help the poor get rid of poverty permanently. Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung together with the Country Garden Group has donated, over the years, hundreds of millions of RMB to charity organizations, schools in destitute mountainous areas.
Part charities of Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung the founder of Country Garden
Zhongming Student Grant
Since 1997, Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung has established Zhongming Student Grant from which RMB 1 million is donated to poor undergraduate to help them finish their study in colleges very year. Since 2006, the grant has increased to 2 million per year. From 1997 to 2011, 5913 students have been benefited by the grant.
Purely Charitable Guohua Memorial High School
September 2002, with a donation of RMB 260 million Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung set up the purely charitable and wholly free Guohua Memorial High School, which within the 6 years from 2002 to 2011, recruited 1400 excellent students of 23 peoples from 28 provinces who had difficulty to go to school due to poverty. Till 2011, six grades of students had graduated from high school, all of whom entered universities and 87% of whom entered first class universities. The students’ living expenditures and tuitions from entering Guohua Memorial High School to the graduation from colleges as undergraduate or graduate students are all undertook by Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung. The current expenditures nearly approach 40 million RMB per year.
Guohua Outstanding Scholar Awards
In October 2007, with a donation of RMB 60 million to Tsinghua and Peking University, Mr YEUNG Kwok Keung established the fund of Guohua Outstanding Scholar Awards to attract excellent talents in teaching and research, support the faculty development, promote academic research, aid the comprehensive development of the universities, and award the scientists in Tsinghua and Peking University whose research achievement has prominent contributions to the state, the society and the people’s welfare.
List of Peking University Guohua Outstanding Schollar Awards
The first selection (Oct. 2008)
Social Science Department Prof. YUAN Xingpei, Prof. WANG Bangwei
Scientific Research Department Prof. CHEN Erjia (academician), Prof. TU Chuanyi (academician)
Medicine Department Prof. CHEN Weifeng (academician), Prof. ZHANG Lihe (academician)
The second selection (Nov. 2009)
School of Mathematics Prof. JIANG Boju (academician)
School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Prof. TANG Youqi (academician)
School of International Relations Prof. WANG Jisi
History Department Prof. YAN Buke
School of Stomatology Prof. ZHANG Zhenkang
The third selection (Oct. 2010)
Peking University School of Arts Prof. Ye lang
Department of Philosophy Prof. Zhao Dunhua
School of Physics Prof. Zhao Guangda (academician)
School of Life Sciences Prof. XU Zhihong (academician)
Peking University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Prof. Wang Kui (academician)
School of Basic Medical Sciences Prof. Han Jisheng (academician)
The First Hospital Prof. WANG Haiyan
Purely charitable and wholly free Guoliang Occupational Training School
Origin of the school
Guoliang Professional Training School is a wholly free charitable school set by the donation of the chairman of the board of Country Garden Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung. The origin and destination of his establishing the school are as follows:
This is a wholly free school for the diligent retired soldiers from poor family in impoverished middle and west China
After 2 or 3 years of military service, the soldiers from rural poor family lack the skills needed in the society when they retired. They are not college students and haven’t received any professional training. Due to the difficulties to find a job, many of them return to the rural area to become peasants and also get back to poverty. After the reform and open policy, our country has made great efforts to develop the socialist market economy, private enterprises emerged and more and more job opportunities become available. The retired soldier can find the desired job as long as they have the expertise.
Armymen have contributed to the security of our country. They have dedicated a lot to our country. If they have to get back to countryside to live poor life because of the lack of skills, I’ll feel very sad, so I sponsored to build the free professional training school for retired soldiers help them master skills, find employment and realize a good income which will bring hope to their families. Such trainings not only increases the income of the retired armymen but also are good to the construction of the army and the protection of our country, and will create a win-win situation which is good to the nation, the people and the military force.
I hope the retired soldiers will find a good job and live a happy life through their diligence and skills after the professional training. If they are qualified after the free training and willing to stay at Country Garden, they can choose to take the job opportunities here. We can provide appropriate positions and salaries according to the enterprise management in the market economy. If they can find jobs elsewhere, as long as the jobs are good and lives are happy, my destination of the operation of the school is fulfilled.
To realize the wish cherished for many years and to undertake the responsibility of entrepreneur, Mr. Yeung Kwok Keung has donated more than RMB 55 million to establish the Guoliang Professional Training School. We hope the school can help the retired soldiers to get rid of poverty which will be the greatest destination and honor of the school.
Introduction
As the national Exemplary Base of Rain and Dew Program and the Exemplary Base of Occupational Training and Employment for Retired Soldiers of the Entire Military Service, the school is especially set up for the training of retired soldiers from impoverished areas. Deputy Director of the Poverty Relief Office of the State Council Mr. GAO Hongbin, President of Youcheng Entrepreneur Fund Committee Ms. WANG Ping attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony held on Dec. 2nd 2006. With the ideal of requiting the society and serving the people as well as the target of “We hope the society will become better with our existence’, it trains up retired military force from poverty areas systematically.
Sun Yat-sen University Guohua Lecture Professor Fund
In December 2007, with donation of RMB 30 million, Mr. YEUNG Kwok Keung set up the Sun Yat-sen University Guohua Lecture Professor Fund in order to attract the top talents from all around the world to strengthen the discipline construction, research, innovation and personnel training of Sun Yat-sen University.
Accepted about 1500 teachers and students from Wenchuan Sangping Middle School to resume education in the Group’s schools.
The founder sponsored about 1500 teachers and students from Wenchuan Sangping Middle School to resume education in the Group’s schools and offered dormitory, cafeteria, travelling expenses and other logistic services, representing about RMB60 million expenditure. This project has been awarded by Chinese Charitable Association in Jul 2009 as “Outstanding Chinese Charitable Project Award”.
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Other charities of the founder
First Generation Undergraduate Grant Program
Sun Yat-sen University Guohua Lecture Professor Fund
RMB 35 million donation for Youcheng Entrepreneur Fund
RMB 25 million donation for training program of demobilized soldiers of Anhui Province
RMB 10 million donation for Guangzhou Acting Bravely for Justice Fund
RMB 10 million donation for Jinan University to set up Jinan University Guohua Education Fund
RMB 5 million donation for Qingyuan Vocational and Technical College
RMB 5 million donation for Qingyuan Guoliang Educational Aid Fund
RMB 5 million donation for Hong Kong University First Generation Undergraduate Program
RMB 200 million donation for Guangdong poverty relief
On the afternoon of June 30th 2010, Guangdong Poverty Relief Day launch ceremony was held at the Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. The Secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee WANG Yang and the Governor of Guangdong Province HUANG Huahua as well as the other main leaders from the provincial Party committee, government, people’s congress, political consultative conference and military region attended the ceremony. 1500 representatives from enterprises, institutions and other organizations attended the activity. The former President of Country Garden Mr. CUI Jianbo, on behalf of the Founder Mr. YEUNG, promised to donate RMB 200 million within 4 years from June 2010 to June 2014 to the various projects to help the poor in Guangdong province, which has been highly praised by the senior officials of the provincial Party committee and government. Secretary Mr. WANG Yang addressed that the warm-hearted entrepreneurs’ generous donation has demonstrated the social morality of Guangdong to do charities and help the poor, as well as protected the honor that Guangdong entrepreneurs have a strong sense of social responsibility.
It is reported that from 2010, June 30th will be Guangdong Poverty Relief Day. This is the first provincial active day approved after the holiday establishing procedure was set up by central government in 2001. Pursuant to the plan of the provincial Party committee and government, the theme of 2010 year’s Guangdong Poverty Relief Day is ‘help the poor, build the harmonious society’, which mobilizes the whole society to contribute in the battle of poverty relief. By July 1st ,RMB 3 billion has been raised.
Charities by the Group
RMB 50 million in total after the Sichuan earthquake on May 12th 2008
After the Sichuan earthquake on May 12th 2008, Country Garden donated RMB 3 million posthaste to the Youcheng Entrepreneur Poverty Relief Fund to support the disaster relief. On May 20th Country Garden donated another RMB 20 million for the reconstruction of disaster area in Sichuan.
Right before the Spring Festival in 2008, more than 20 provinces in China encountered rarely severe snowstorm disaster. Country Garden initiatively responded to the call of the government and donated more than RMB 4 million to support the local governments to purchase goods for disaster relief.
In 2007, Country Garden started the aid for the counties of Mabian and Ganluo in Sichuan, which would donate RMB 200 million in total within 4 years with RMB 50 million each year.
By the end of 2007, RMB 50 million has been donated.
RMB Donated 15 million to help Mabian in Sichuan province in 2006.
Donated RMB 50 million to Zengcheng for the construction of City Square.
Donated RMB 20 million to Guangzhou Charity Association
Donated RMB 20 million for the construction of Shunde Vocational and Technical College
Donated RMB 15 million to Guangzhou Children Welfare Home
Donated RMB 10 million to China Medicine Fund Committee
Donated RMB 5 million to Guangdong Exceptional Poverty Housing
Donated RMB 5 million to Shunde Charity Association
Donated RMB 5 million to General Charity Association of Huiyang Huizhou
Donated RMB 5 million to China Physician Association for the cervical cancer census in Sichuan
Donated RMB 2 million for the achievement exhibition of Rain and Dew Program held by the Poverty Relief Office of the State Council.
Country Garden Staff Aid Fund was launched in early 2008 to help the employees who have economical problems caused by diseases or accidents.
Donated accumulative total RMB 12.7 million to various charities such as support the disaster area.
Donated accumulative total RMB 6.6 million to education institutions and funds.
Donated accumulative total RMB 6.3 million to various charity institutions in the society.
