Shouning County, located in Ningde city, east of Fujian Province, suffers from a severe shortage of education infrastructure. With the support of the China Foundation for the Guangcai Program, Shouning County, Ningde City and Fujian Province, Vanke invested RMB 120 million in the project. Vanke sent professional teams, overcame challenges such as difficulties of mountain area construction, long rainy season and lack of workforce and mechanical resources, finally completed the largest education poverty alleviation investment project in Fujian Province.

With regards to educational resources, Guizhou and Gansu are among the most deficient regions in China with extremely insufficient education infrastructure. In partnership with China Foundation for Guangcai Program, Vanke cumulatively invested RMB 75 million from 2018 to 2020 to support the basic education of the five poverty-stricken counties designated by the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, namely, Qinglong County, Hezhang County, Wangmo County and Sandu County of Guizhou Province and Jishishan County of Gansu Province. The funds have been used to improve the basic conditions of local kindergartens and primary schools, centering on teaching buildings, student dormitories and canteens, and complemented by auxiliary facilities such as libraries, electric classrooms, and playgrounds.

In response to the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, Vanke supported the reconstruction of anti-seismic grade 9 Zundao Elementary and Middle School in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province. It’s the first permanent building delivered and put into use after the earthquake. For the past 12 years, Vanke and many people have paid close attention to the development of the school and children’s growth. Through teacher incentive plans, student awards and grants, academic campus construction, and physical quality improvement of teachers and students, Vanke has continuously injected new impetus into the development of the school.

In active response to Shenzhen’s counterpart assistance work to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, Vanke donated RMB 100 million to support the city’s poverty alleviation through education development. The funds would be used to construct 8 kindergartens in the relocation sites of Jing’an Village of Zhaoyang District and Maojiawan Village of Ludian County to create a safe and comfortable living growing environment to meet the diversifying developmental needs of children. By the end of 2020, 6 kindergartens had been completed and delivered, and scheme design for the remaining 2 kindergartens had been underway.

On March 3, 2020, the government of Guizhou Province announced that 24 counties (districts), including Zheng’an, have been removed from the list of poverty-stricken counties, and Zhenfeng County in Qianxinan Prefecture has been included in the list, signalling that it has successfully got out of poverty. In November 2016, Vanke cooperated with Beijing Green & Shine Foundation to launch the five-year Vanke-Green & Shine Rural Teacher Support Program. As part of poverty alleviation action through education development in Zhenfeng County, the project has contributed to the overall poverty alleviation in the county.

In view of the education situation and requirements of Zhenfeng County, the project focuses on the professional ability, professional identity, physical and mental health of rural teacher groups, and provides the teachers in the county with systematic training and learning support regarding reading promotion and science class learning and research in addition to book donation and scientific exploration experimental equipment, to improve the environment and quality of elementary education in Zhenfeng County.

Mainly focusing on the two major influences of “publicizing independent reading” and “promoting teaching transformation” in 2020, Vanke led, drove and motivated the involvement of more schools and teachers in independent reading and campus reading for teachers and students. Efforts were also made to promote the change of schools and teachers in the concept, method, behavior and other aspects of science class teaching and research, and facilitate the change from the past focus on the transmission of knowledge to the cultivation of children’s scientific literacy and comprehensive ability.

During the “Guangcai Program in Nujiang” campaign in 2018, Vanke donated RMB 80 million for the implementation of the “New Era, New Life” public welfare project for relocation in Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Necessary furniture such as beds, dining tables, closets and sofas were provided for 25,040 poverty-stricken relocated residents in Lushui, Fugong, Lanping and Gongshan in Nujiang Prefecture to maintain a fundamental quality of life. The project is implemented in three phases. As of the end of 2020, 23,410 sets of furniture had been properly supplied and distributed.

In addition to the furniture donation project in 2020, Vanke spent the project balance of RMB 8.96 million to purchase TVs for 11,200 poverty-stricken households in Lushui City, Fugong County and Lanping County to further improve the living standards of the relocated households.

The “Shenzhen Town” project is a demonstration project of the national east-west cooperation in relocation and poverty alleviation, a model project of the Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation in poverty alleviation, and a landmark project of Shenzhen Baise poverty alleviation support and collaboration. To build the “Shenzhen Town” into a fully functional, well-equipped, green, beautiful and livable model community for poverty alleviation through relocation, Vanke donated RMB 100 million to support its construction.

The Vanke Foundation has worked with Aiyou Charity Foundation in the public welfare assistance project for poverty-stricken children with congenital heart disease since 2009, with the aim to help children with congenital heart disease aged 0-18 from less fortunate families. Relying on the network platform and using the cooperation mode of designated hospitals, the Aiyou Child Care project selects hospitals with relatively better medical conditions as cooperative designated hospitals across China to provide treatment for children with congenital heart disease.

In June 2020, the Vanke Foundation donated RMB 3 million to treat children from poverty-stricken families who suffer from hematologic diseases and solid tumors. Thus far, 142 children had been provided with treatment. In 2020, the Vanke Foundation donated RMB 1 million to provide medical examinations and surgical treatment for poverty-stricken orphans with congenital heart disease, and funded a total of 66 children with congenital heart disease.

Pediatric leukemia occurs at a rate between three and four per 100,000 children and is the second leading cause of death among children under 15 years of age. Since 2020, Vanke has been supporting children with hematologic diseases. Vanke has aided children with solid tumors in the National Children’s Medical Center, aiming to treat children aged 0-18 from poverty-stricken families suffering from hematologic diseases and solid tumor diseases.

In 2020, Vanke, together with Shenzhen Children’s Hospital and Aiyou Charity Foundation, initiated the humane medial project “Hospitalized Children Care Space.” The project is expected to create a more friendly medical environment and more abundant hospital experience for children and families, thereby reducing their psychological burden of the illness and the medical process and the environment. The co-construction mode of “Children’s Hospital + Foundation + Enterprise” is adopted for the project to create an exclusive activity space for children. Professional medical social workers are also employed to provide children and family-centric professional medical social work services through thematic activities, medical adaptation support, and casework.

In 2020, Vanke started constructing Vcare Space for Hospitalized Children in Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Chongqing, and other places. The Vcare Space for Hospitalized Children in Shenzhen and Taiyuan have been completed and put into operation.