AmCham South China Helps Impoverished Wuxing Village
Battle Poverty
with RMB3,429,517 (US$545,233)
in
Cash and In-kind Donations from Members
MEIZHOU,
CHINA – February 2,
2018 – The American Chamber of Commerce in South
China (AmCham South China), as its 8th consecutive annual charity effort
and 2nd year to visit Wuxing Village, yesterday returned with a selected group of business and community
leaders including executives from multinational corporations to Wuxing
Village.
Cash donation of RMB200,000 (US$31,797)
from Mead Johnson Nutrition and RMB100,000 (US$15,898) from
Jingxing Real Estate and in-kind donation of RMB3,129,517
(US$497,538) were raised in this
year’s charity effort. In-kind donations included products at market value of
RMB60,000 (US$9,539) from P&G, RMB20,000
(US$3,180) from Apex Tools and
Orthopedics, and RMB3,000,000 (US$476,948) from Skullcandy
Audio (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.. Products of clothing,
educational materials, bedding, food, stationery, and headsets were donated from member companies. All
donations will be properly processed by Guangzhou Youth
Development Foundation, and cash donations will be used
to save lives of orphaned children in need of
immediate life-saving surgery, and to help Wuxing
Village combat poverty.
On February 2nd, a team of medical
professionals from the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center and the Sanitation Center of Zhuanshui County co-offered free onsite medical checkups and consultations to the
villagers. The delegation also
visited the local families in need of assistance, allowing AmCham South China
to learn more about the villagers’ living condition.
According to official statistics, Wuxing
Village, located in Wuhua County of Meizhou City, covers an area of 11.5
kilometers and owns a population of 4,034 people, comprising of 82 relatively
poverty-stricken households (252 people). Before the Chamber’s charity efforts
last year, Wuxing Village was home to 157 poverty-stricken households (909
people), a preliminary census shows.
For years, Guangzhou People’s Association for
Friendship with Foreign Countries of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Bureau,
Guangzhou Charity Association of Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, Guangzhou
Women and Children’s Medical Center, and Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation
have been partners of AmCham South China in the AmCham South China Charity Theme Events.
* Chinese
Yuan Renminbi (CNY) to U.S. Dollar (USD) exchange rate on Feb 2, 2018 was
6.29:1.
About The American Chamber of Commerce in
South China
The American Chamber of Commerce in South China (AmCham South
China) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating bilateral
trade between the
The mission of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China
is to promote the development of trade, commerce and investment between the
United States and the People’s Republic of China with a special focus on South
China; to provide a forum in which member businesses can identify their common
interests and discuss solutions for common problems; to work with and advocate
member interests with relevant organizations in South China, elsewhere in China
and the United States, and to set the standards for corporate social
responsibility for the community that the Chamber serves.
About Mead Johnson
Nutrition Company
Mead Johnson Nutrition Company was founded in 1905 by Edward
Mead Johnson, and its global headquarters is located in Glenview, Illinois, in
the United States.
Mead Johnson has a proud history of over 110 years and is a
global leader in infant and children’s nutrition. The company has been
committed from its very beginning to nourishing the world’s children for the
best start in life. Mead Johnson has a workforce of approximately 7,700
dedicated employees worldwide. The company manufactures and markets more than
70 products in over 50 countries. Those innovative products deliver tangible,
often clinically-proven developmental and health outcomes, and have helped Mead
Johnson earn the trust of millions of parents and health care professionals.
In June 2017, Reckitt Benckiser, one of the Top 500 enterprises,
announced the completion of the acquisition of the Mead Johnson Nutrition
Company. Mead Johnson will initially operate as a separate division within RB.
About Mead Johnson
Nutrition (China) Ltd.
Mead Johnson Nutrition China was founded in 1993. Our
manufacturing facility is located at Dong Ji Xia Yuan Road in the Guangzhou
Economic and Technological Development Zone. It covers an area of 60,000 square
meters and boasts some of the world’s most advanced production processes and
technology. Currently, the company’s sales network is established in 29
provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities nationwide.
Mead Johnson strives to advance its leadership role as part of
the healthy growth of the entire pediatric nutrition industry. The company has
operated strictly under its first-to-market “All-Rounded Safety” quality
management model and GMP standards across its manufacturing, supply chains,
storage and distribution networks. Having been awarded ISO9001:2008 certification,
Mead Johnson China adheres to HACCP principles and meets all national food
safety and hygiene standards.
With deep roots in China extending back 24 years, Mead Johnson
is committed to delivering professional care and support to Chinese consumers
by providing high quality nutritional products for pregnant women, infants and
children and sharing our advanced knowledge of pediatric science through
various activities to enhance the awareness of the importance of early
childhood nutrition among young Chinese parents.
About
Jingxing Company
Jingxing Company started business in 1985 in
Import and Export field, working with the renowned electrical brands such as
Haier, Gree and Midea. With them the business achievements of Jingxing Company were excellent. In order
to broaden the business platform, Jingxing Company has entered the Real Estate field in 1995 and
formed Guangzhou Jingxing Real Estate Co., Ltd. Now, Jingxing
Company has become an integrated enterprise with interests in residential real
estate, property management, hotel, business trades and commercial real estate
development. The total asset of the company exceeds RMB6 billion and has over
200 employees.
The company abides by “improve living quality, elevate construction quality” as
its responsibility, keeps the rule to optimize the city functions and advocates
quality living.
About
Wuxing Village
Covering an area of 11.5 kilometers, Wuxing
Village is located in east of Zhuanshui Town, Wuhua County, home
to 680
households with the total registered population of 4,034 people.
With its counterpart-assistance organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office,
Wuxing Village is relatively poverty-stricken and in need of targeted measures
to help people lift themselves out of poverty in Guangdong Province. The
Village is home to
82 relatively poverty-stricken households (252 people), out of which 55
households (215 people) are labor-capable and 27 households (37 people) are
not. In 2016, the Village has lifted 39 households (93 people) out of poverty,
accounting for 36.9% of its total poverty-stricken population.
Nowadays, Wuxing Village needs to address major issues of employing the
poor population, renovating the mud buildings, and educating the young
generation. With the help from supporting organizations, Wuxing Village has
built a separate workplace for its committee, a public health station for its
villagers, and a one-kilometer road to its neighboring village.
The village is improving their living condition by cleaning up the
chaotic piling-up of old junks, wires as well as demolishing dilapidated
buildings, ruins, broken oxen, and open-air toilets. With the help from
supporting organizations, the village has established a long-lasting garbage
collecting system.
About the Guangzhou People’s Association for
Friendship with Foreign Countries (GZPAFFC)
Established in 1984, the GZPAFFC is a citywide local people’s group.
The Association aims at establishing friendship and strengthening mutual understanding
between local people in Guangzhou and people from around the world, as well as
promoting communication and cooperation between them, maintaining world peace
and promoting mutual development. The Association is guided by China People’s
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and Guangdong People’s
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and other superior
departments.
About the
Founded on June 5th, 1994, Guangzhou Charity
Association is a registered citywide charitable society and individual
volunteers group approved by the municipal government. The association is committed to promoting
the spirit of humanitarian, contributing to poverty alleviation, and helping
people with less fortune and people in need. It promotes awareness of charity,
and exploration of fields of charitable services. It calls for the society to
contribute to funds raising, emergency rescuing, care for senior people, orphans
and medical treatments, and
volunteer teaching, so as to help the people in need. The association has
established a transparent charity information platform and explored more
channels for public involvements of charity in order to help accelerate
innovative development of the philanthropic industry. In the past 21 years, the
fund raised by the association has added up to RMB2.46 billion and fund donated
added up to RMB2.17 billion. For its great contribution, the association has
received “Extraordinary Award for Philanthropic Industry in China”,
“Charity Award in South Guangdong Area”, “2014 Excellent Social Group in
Guangzhou”, and “
About
Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation (hereinafter referred to as
GYDF) was founded in May 4th, 1994. This public foundation was co-founded by
Guangzhou Committee of China's Communist Youth League, Guangzhou Youth
Federation and Guangzhou Working Committee of Young Pioneers. For a long time,
GYDF has attracted broad attention and support from all sectors of society.
Meanwhile, it has received guidance and assistance from central, provincial and
municipal authorities. It’s not only a public funding agency, but also a
private foundation and social organization. It raises public fund in Guangdong
province, while receiving voluntary contributions, investment income
and other lawful income from organizations, natural persons and legal
persons.
GYDF aims to rally fund and material support for development of
Guangzhou teenagers’ career by connecting with enterprise & public
institutions, social organizations, other organizations and individuals home
and abroad; to carry on helping orphans and the poor in their study; to develop
first aid service; to subsidize
all districts and institutions in Guangzhou to hold various activities which
benefit for teenagers’ physical and psychological health; to support and
promote studies of teenagers’ problems; to award excellent teenagers and social
organizations and individuals who make contribution to teenagers’ career.
Since its establishment, GYDF has taken an active participation
in social welfare with support from different sectors of society. It promotes
“Help the Disadvantaged”, devotes itself to building a harmonious society, dedicates in
helping poor students to learn. When the whole nation was faced with natural
disasters, GYDF united and led the municipal youth to devote in earthquake
relief. This manifests noble spirits of great love in Guangzhou.
Through development of 20 years, GYDF, with the
help of public, has advanced with the times and solicited social resources, made a greater contribution
to social welfare by building its website and Weibo, and
organized voluntary service groups
to broaden serving fields for teenagers.
About Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical
Center
Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center (GWCMC) was
established with the integration of the former Guangzhou Children’s Hospital
and former Guangzhou Maternity Health Care Center. Covering an area of 37
thousand square meters and a built-up area of 130 thousand square meters, the
hospital is equipped with 1400 beds. Among the 2603 staff, 282 are holding senior titles,
573 have received master level
education or above and 47 of them are MD or MS mentors. In December 2012, GWCMC
became the first public hospital in southern
The Hospital has greatly enhanced its capacity building. Three
specialties have been honorably recognized as National Key Clinical Specialties
entitled by the Ministry of Health, including Respiratory, Gastroenterology and
Pediatric Surgery; six as Guangdong Key Clinical Disciplines or Specialties,
and one as Key Medical Laboratories listed in
The hospital has evolved to a high-level, comprehensive and
multi-disciplinary health care institution, integrating the function of medical
and healthcare, prevention, research and education.
“Caring for women and children with benevolence and expertise”
remains at the core of the hospital’s mission. Our culture stems from the motto
of “Integrity, Professionalism, Endeavor and Diligence”, and core value of
“Love, harmony, prudence and practical”.
Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Centre spares no effort
in communication and cooperation with counterparts nationwide and worldwide. We
have developed strong connections with British Columbia Children’s Hospital,
Kansas Children’s
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