At the home of 84-year-old Ding Baojian in Shichang Village in Songxian County, Henan Province, a shining drinking water tap is shrouded by a plastic bag. He carefully opened the tap, got a glass of water and passed it to me, saying proudly, “Our tap water is drinkable, and very sweet.” Not long ago, however, all the households living in the village still solely depended on the rainwater collected in an open-air water cellar, with fallen tree leaves and waste often floating on the surface. In 2017, during his visit to the village, Liu Dashan, Party committee secretary and chairman of CECEP, required the poverty-relief staff to “solve the local drinking water problem at all costs.”

Since the beginning of 2018, CECEP has made active efforts to help Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shake off poverty, thanks to which local residents have enjoyed tangible benefits in terms of livelihood, income and education. With an investment of 1.1 million yuan, CECEP constructed a drinking water project, bringing clean and clear spring water to 1,122 villagers. Its donation of 106 solar road lamps worth of 500,000 yuan has benefited 3,300 villagers. It renovated buildings of an abandoned p

From May 27 to 30, Yu Honghui, CEO and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of CECEP, headed a team into Songxian County, Henan Province, and Fuchuan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to inspect CECEP’s targeted poverty alleviation work. In the two impoverished counties, Yu inspected CECEP-aided livelihood projects and industrial poverty alleviation projects, visited poverty-stricken households, and held talks with local leaders at county, township and village levels to understand the progress of poverty reduction in the two countries and discuss and explore a long-term mechanism and plans for sustained fight against poverty.

On December 22, 2018, organized by the Chinese Contractors’ Chamber of Commerce in Tanzania, representatives from Chinese-funded companies visited a local orphanage to donate study supplies and living necessities as Christmas gifts to the 20 children living here. The East Africa Branch of China Geo-Engineering Corporation (CGC) under CECEP participated in the activity, making its due contribution to public welfare.