This program is a charitable project CECEP started five years ago to assist poor rural students. By supporting education, it aims to strength the region's capability and foundation of poverty reduction.

Over past years, CECEP has invested in accommodation, transport, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment infrastructures in Shichang Village to boost local tourism. It linked up a disconnected 800-meter village road, built a two-kilometer road in the Stone Tribe scenic area, drilled a deep well, launched a marketing program for local eggs, established an organic egg brand, and promoted local specialties among tourists. What's more, the company bought Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) seedlings, and distributed them to local farmers free of charge, which gave a strong boost to plantation of local features.

CECEP is the only designated pipeline and construction subcontractor from China in Sri Lanka's water projects. In 2012 it built in the country a waste water treatment facility with a daily capacity of 14,000 square meters and a water supply plant (Kelani Right Bank) with a daily capacity of 181,000 square meters. The former treated sewage for more than 50,000 residents and waste water from about 100 companies and factories, and the latter supplied running water for around 350,000 residents.

To mark the fifth National Poverty Relief Day, which fell on October 17 this year, CECEP Chairman Liu Dashan headed a team on an inspection tour to Fuchuan, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Songxian, in Henan Province, from October 15 to 19. In these two poverty-stricken counties which receive pairing assistance from CECEP, the team investigated the use of funds and the implementation of aid projects, acquired information about local industrial development, and conducted in-depth exchange with local county government officials.

During the work conference on promoting the construction of Zhejiang’s Great Bay Area, an economic and industrial belt centered around Hangzhou Bay, held on July 30, CECEP signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, aiming at the goal of “building a world-class great bay that is green, modern, smart, harmonious and beautiful.”

On January 29, CECEP Deputy CEO Yu Honghui headed a team to Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to inspect poverty relief work. He asserted that CECEP takes poverty relief as a significant mission that must be fulfilled with sincerity and passion. CECEP is committed to performing its social responsibility as a central SOE and propelling poverty alleviation through industrial development and project construction, aiming to lift every poor person in Fuchuan County out of poverty by 2020, he added.