WHITE PAPER ON TARGETED POVERTY ALLEVIATION Lead

The White Paper on Targeted Poverty Alleviation of State Power Investment Corporation Limited is the first report on twinning assistance and targeted poverty alleviation issued by State Power Investment Corporation Limited (hereinafter also referred to as “SPIC”, “Company”, or “We”), disclosing the efforts and results of SPIC and its affiliated entities in poverty alleviation and development.

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State Power Investment Corporation Limited

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The information used in this report comes from the The three reports adopt a unified cover design company’s official documents and statistical reports. Unless style, which reflects the consistency of the social otherwise specified, the financial data in the report are responsibility management of SPIC. The ingenious expressed in RMB. use of "Chinese elements", such as ink painting and halo dyeing, depicts SPIC’s development goal of Preparation process standing on China and going abroad. The three cover The report preparation is subject to life cycle photos tell the responsibility story between SPIC management. The objectivity, standardization, honesty and the three children, as well as the sustainable and transparency of report information are ensured development goals of SPIC to care for the next /Cover Story/ through multiple steps, such as analysis of national and generation and create a better life. The two interlaced local poverty alleviation policies, interviews with key lines extract the linear elements of SPIC’s LOGO, and 15 years of perseverance, more than 100 entities, departments, field research, report preparation, and respectively represent the two most important lines leadership approval. of corporate social responsibility work - humanistic 283 service stations, over 13,000 young volunteers. concern and ecological protection. The different Report acquisition dominant colors and vector elements on the lines also 8359 poor students received financial aid. You can obtain more information about SPIC’s twinning represent the theme and focus of each report, making assistance and targeted poverty alleviation or download the three reports unified and unique. SPIC “Ying Shan Hong” student aid campaign is launched the electronic version of this report through the following wherever SPIC operates its business. channel.

Company website: http://www.spic.com.cn/ STATE POWER INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED WHITE PAPER ON TARGETED POVERTY ALLEVIATION Our Achievements CONTENTS

Morality cultivation Practice Preface 04 Part One 28 Part Two 34 Looking to the future 60 from concept to action from poverty alleviation based on resource provision to poverty

Going forward forever 06 Make planning first, and move 32 alleviation based on capacity without fear of difficulties after planning development eventually brings about Poverty alleviation through 36 fruitful achievements and Work hard for implementation, 32 industrial projects creates a success and assign responsibility to individuals sustainable future

Light up people’s new life 14 Poverty alleviation through 44 with power supply Implement transparent 33 supervision, and stay true to people’s livelihood projects the mission safeguards people’s happiness

Poverty alleviation through 50 educational support lightens civilization

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Preface

There is no nobler moral character than caring a stable “photovoltaic dividend” for poor people in to participate in targeted poverty alleviation, extensively those who truly need it and deliver genuine outcomes, for the people, and there is no more humane Shangcheng County and other places of Henan province mobilizes the enthusiasm of all sectors of society to poverty alleviation efforts must be practical, poverty for up to 20 years, and realizes the improvement of both participate in poverty alleviation and development, alleviation process must progress steadily, and poverty behavior than making the people happy. collective income of hundreds of poor villages and fiscal integrates multiple forces and implement multi-party alleviation results must be tangible. Through in-depth on- Winning the battle against poverty is one of the three major revenue of the county. Industrial poverty alleviation is coordination and various measures to construct a three- site investigations of poor households, SPIC has a detailed initiatives to build a well-off society in an all-round way. It the fundamental approach to get rid of poverty and get dimensional new pattern of poverty alleviation. It adheres understanding of the real situation of each household, is a solemn commitment made by the Party to the people rich. Based on the natural resources of poverty-stricken to the philosophy that poverty alleviation requires a change so as to make different policies for different households of the whole country. It is the common responsibility of areas, SPIC develops characteristic industries, promotes of attitude, actively makes innovations and creates a social and different individuals, and to ensure the root cause of the whole Party and the people of the whole country. industrial poverty alleviation, effectively improves the self- atmosphere advocating the honor in labor, the honor in poverty can be found, the right solution can be developed Everyone should take part in this battle in its own way, development ability of poverty-stricken areas and brings employment, the honor in poverty alleviation, guides the and implemented effectively. SPIC does it best in detail give full play to its greatest advantages, and do its best about the transformation from poverty alleviation based on poor people to stand on their own feet and lift themselves to implement the poverty alleviation activities, selects to win the battle against poverty. SPIC adheres to the “six resource provision to poverty alleviation based on capacity out of poverty, promotes the ideological change of the and sends 135 cadres to go to the grassroots for poverty targeted approaches”, “five batches” and other national development. In Meigu County, Sichuan Province, it makes poor people from “you should provide aid-the-poor alleviation, solving tough problems and making long-term policies, guidelines and routes for poverty alleviation and use of the local unique goat breed, black goat, to carry materials” to “I want to get rid of poverty” and from “you contributions. It has continuously pushed the in-depth development. It is clear-sighted to understand the difficulty out the “industrialized goat raising” project, helping 620 require me to move forward” to “I want to move forward”, development of poverty alleviation based on capacity of the tasks facing the battle against poverty, as well as poor households to increase their income by 8,000 yuan and helps the poor people increase confidence in their development, and injected fresh and lasting momentum the outstanding problems in practice and the urgency of per household. In Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, own ability to lift themselves out of poverty without relying into poverty-stricken areas. SPIC’s poverty alleviation solving these problems. It never relaxes, pauses, slacks it builds 210 fifth-generation reinforced greenhouses, on aid-the-poor materials. It fundamentally improved the cadres are friends, comrades in arms and so-called off, but focuses on the most poverty-stricken areas, helping poor people generate income of more than 4 production and living conditions of poverty-stricken areas, “relatives” of the masses in poor areas. They solve people’s improves the quality of poverty alleviation, pushes forward million yuan and achieving good demonstration effect. In and helps realize the grand blueprint for the rejuvenation difficulties on site, solve people’s problems at critical poverty alleviation firmly, does a good job in poverty Wugang City, Hunan Province, it adopts the “company + of rural areas with thriving industry, ecological livability, junctures, and solve people’s worries in daily life. Our alleviation, a noble cause beneficial to the people and the cooperative + household” model to plant 400 mu of cash civilized rural customs, effective governance and rich generation will win the battle against poverty and solve the government, so that the poverty alleviation results can truly crop cyclocarya paliurus, and the guaranteed income life. It adheres to the philosophy that poverty alleviation problem of absolute poverty besetting the Chinese nation could be increased by 15 million yuan during the 30-year for thousands of years. The journey is dangerous and long, be recognized by the masses and can stand practical and requires the support of education, actively promotes contract period. but we will eventually reach the end, as long as we move historical tests. the brand building of the “Ying Shan Hong” student forward. aid campaign, helps poor students finish their studies, increase their knowledge and have more opportunities to SPIC insists that the most important factor of SPIC advances poverty reduction drawing pursue their dreams by means of reading room building, on the joint efforts of government, society, twinning assistance and educational donation, completely 2018 is the year of building a spirit of fighting poverty alleviation is the targeted approach, blocks the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and against poverty. SPIC will continue its efforts, and the success of poverty alleviation depends and the market, pays particular attention to promotes the successful completion of poverty alleviation. carry forward its continuous fighting spirit, be on the targeted approach. helping people increase confidence in their own ability to lift themselves out of poverty. ready to respond to and overcome various tough SPIC firmly holds the magic weapon of development- challenges, firmly fight and win the battle against SPIC enables poverty alleviation to reach based poverty alleviation, bases itself on its main SPIC advances poverty reduction drawing on the joint poverty, and make contributions to the success of efforts of government, society, and the market, actively those who truly need it, does its best in detail business, gives full play to the advantages of power building a well-off society in an all-round way and enterprise, successfully completes the construction of mobilizes and guides social resources to participate to deliver love and care. winning the great victory of socialism with Chinese power supply projects to aid Tibet, such as Boluo Power extensively in donation to aid students and skills training, Station in Chayu County of Tibet, successfully builds up improves the coordination between the east and the west General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that formalism characteristics in the new era. the pilot photovoltaic poverty alleviation project, creates as well as the mechanism for Party and government organs should be prevented, poverty alleviation should reach

04 05 GOING FORWARD Our Achievements FOREVER WITHOUT FEAR OF DIFFICULTIES EVENTUALLY BRINGS ABOUT FRUITFUL ACHIEVEMENTS AND SUCCESS

On the Qinghai Plateau where the weather is cold and snowy,

In the inland areas of Sichuan where traffic is inconvenient,

In Yan’an, the holy place of revolution, where ravines and tunnels crisscross...

No matter how difficult the conditions are, SPIC has been firm in its confidence and moving forward to solve the overall poverty problem;

No matter how many problems there are, SPIC has been working out targeted solutions to various problems on the road to poverty alleviation.

Over the years, SPIC has always been taking people’s aspiration for a better life as its ultimate goal, identifying the root cause of poverty, setting clear targets, working out tailor- made solutions, implementing targeted poverty alleviation to address root causes, satisfying the urgent needs of people, solving the difficulties of people, dispelling the worries of people, uniting and leading the poor people to strive for a better life in the new era.

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Database Overview Poverty alleviation inspections Summarization

Total investment in poverty alleviation (10,000 yuan) Number of poverty alleviation inspections (inspections)

5511.17 2015 51 3245 3095.8 2016 89

2017 118 2015 2016 2017

Total number of seconded cadres in poverty-stricken areas (people) Number of household surveys (surveys) Number of poor villages surveyed (villages)

7228 32 32 2015 28 24 2495 2016 58 1881

2017 49 2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017

Number of poor households surveyed (households) Number of people out of poverty (people)

2015 581 2015 2017 1479 2461 2016 717

4494 2016 2017 1050

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Industrial poverty alleviation Poverty alleviation through educational support

Number of poverty alleviation projects built (projects) Number of key villages and towns supported (villages/towns) Investment in training (10,000 yuan) Number of trainings organized (sessions/times)（万元）

98.2 32 11 25 35 23 7 7 86.545 76.695

2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017 15 11

Per capita income growth of poor villages (RMB) Number of key poverty-stricken households receiving aid (households)

2771 2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017 6700 5689 3786 349 441

2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017 Poverty alleviation through people’s livelihood projects

Building roads and bridges (km) Building houses (houses) Number of jobs created (jobs)

71 2015 1360 11.3 8.1 21.75 59 38 2016 2210 2015 2016 2017

2017 2812 2015 2016 2017

10 11 STATE POWER INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED WHITE PAPER ON TARGETED POVERTY ALLEVIATION Our Achievements Dramatic changes Witness

Kong Xiagan, a villager in Jinman Village, Nujiang, >> SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan built a road in Jieshang Village, Nayong County, Guizhou >> SPIC SNPTC built vegetable greenhouses in Yanchuan, Shaanxi Province, to carry Yunan Province, moved Province, to make it easier for villagers to travel out industrial poverty alleviation from the old and dangerous house to the safe and new house

Jigema, a villager in Lamu Ajue Town, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, raised black goats with an average annual increase in income of nearly 10,000 yuan

Wuyun Bilige and his family living on the prairie started to live a wonderful life with TV and refrigerator

In the poverty-relief areas designated by SPIC, the people are getting better >> SPIC Sichuan Company built a suspension bridge in Meigu County, Sichuan >> SPIC Henan Company built an activity center for the elderly in Dufan Village, and richer day by day. Province, to facilitate villagers to cross the river Shangcheng County, Henan Province, to enrich the life of the elderly

>> SPIC Yunnan International builds “light-steel houses” in Lushui County, Yunnan >> SPIC Wuling Power launched a donation activity to aid students in Yuping Village, Province, to allow villagers to live in safe houses Wugang City, Hunan Province, to allow all students there to use the new desks

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SPIC responds positively to the central government’s call and attaches great importance to the work of aiding Qinghai, Tibet and Xinjiang, to promote national unity and development.

It gives full play to its industrial advantages and invests 111 million yuan to successfully complete the construction of power supply projects in unpowered areas of Tibet, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, solving the difficulty to use electricity for more than 215,000 people in unpowered areas.

It carries out targeted poverty alleviation to enable more people to enjoy the fruits of enterprise reform and development.

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Travelling a long distance to aid Qinghai

Since 2012, SPIC has been aiding Guinan County and Jianza County in Qinghai Province based on a twinning program. Based on the county conditions and village conditions, it has adhered to the principle of “scientific planning, suiting measures to local conditions, government guidance, industrial poverty alleviation, building projects in villages and delivering aids to households”, and has highlighted people’s livelihood needs. Through renovation of dilapidated walls, road hardening, construction of cultural squares, construction of irrigation canals, implementation of poverty alleviation projects in financial and cultural tourism industries, the infrastructure of poor villages has been continuously improved and the living and production conditions of poor people have obviously improved. The construction of beautiful countryside on the plateau has been By the end of 2017, steadily progressing and the results of village renovation are beginning to show. The poor people’s self-development ability has gradually improved and the foundation for SPIC had invested a total of poverty alleviation has been consolidated. 40 million yuan in Qinghai to help the poor

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Aiding Qinghai through Aiding Qinghai through “SPIC is the main force in the construction Industrial poverty alleviation people’s livelihood of photovoltaic independent power supply educational support projects in unpowered areas. SPIC attaches projects great importance to and actively fulfills its social responsibilities. To complete the During the “12th five-year plan” period, SPIC distributed SPIC aids Guinan County and Jianza County SPIC Huanghe Company makes donation task of providing power supply to the last 40532 household photovoltaic systems in Yushu region of Qinghai under a twinning program. to build “Ying Shan Hong” reading room in unpowered area in Qinghai in the second of Qinghai, completed and put into operation 261 Jiajia Town in Jianza County is listed as a the designated poor village and holds “Ying half of 2015, SPIC organized and aided the independent photovoltaic power stations, and solved the Tibetan town with great difficulties. In 2017, Shan Hong” student aid activities. The “skills construction of Yushu and Goluo photovoltaic independent power supply projects, problem of electricity consumption of 142,000 people SPIC Huanghe Company completed the training + labor export + targeted resettlement” successfully completed the task and made without power supply. During the “13th five-year plan” reconstruction of 1412m dilapidated adobe poverty alleviation implementation plan has important contributions to the power supply period, the survey of households without power supply will walls in Shangzhuang Village, Kangyang been formulated to realize the transfer of labor to 39,800 people in the last unpowered area continue to be strengthened. In 2017, 1.6 million yuan was Town, Jianzha County, completed the road force and poverty alleviation through labor of Qinghai.” invested in the photovoltaic power supply project for poor hardening and roadbed expansion project export of poor households. In Guinan County, December 31, 2015 households without power supply in Guinan County to solve in Anzhong Village of Jiajia Town, solving the Qinghai, SPIC Huanghe Company has set up a The thank-you letter to SPIC from the problem of electricity consumption for 114 registered difficulty of the masses to travel in Anzhong scholarship program, which provides free aid of National Energy Administration households without power supply in Guinan County. Village, and completed the construction 200,000 yuan every year, rewarding 40 students of cultural square and irrigation canal in with excellent performance, each with 5,000 yuan. Anzhong Village. In addition, SPIC Huanghe It has set up an education development fund to Company actively carries out poverty alleviation purchase teaching equipment and materials for Aiding Qinghai through “Since the establishment of the twinning projects in the financial and cultural tourism stone carving and auto repair majors in Guinan relationship with SPIC in 2011, SPIC has industrial projects industries, and the registered poor household Vocational & Technical School. Since 2010, successively provided aid funds of 29.297 insurance establishment project, promotes 18 training sessions have been carried out for million yuan and implemented 14 aid SPIC helps to develop a cold chain system for vegetable the development of the local tourism industry, cadres in Guinan County, covering new energy projects, focusing on the renovation of dilapidated houses of farmers and herdsmen, production to help alleviate poverty in Angsuo Village, improves the poor people’s ability to resist risks management, investment and financing, project the infrastructure construction such as Mangqu Town, Guinan County, not only solving the shortage and reduces the high risk of falling into poverty management, etc. water supply, power supply, roads, and the of vegetables in Guinan County and the lack of vegetables for owning to illness or disaster. construction of public service facilities in the farmers and herdsmen in winter, but also creating jobs for the fields of education, health, and culture. The disabled and helping the disabled to increase their incomes. SPIC Huanghe Company people of all ethnic groups in Guinan truly has set up a scholarship feel the deep friendship of SPIC from the It launches projects to support specialized cooperatives of ever-changing life of them.” poor households and promotes the planting of 29,900 mu of program, which provides special vegetables such as Jerusalem artichoke, broad bean, free aid of 2017 spring festival and black highland barley in the county. It also invests 1.2885 The thank-you letter to SPIC Huanghe yuan every year. Company from CPC Guinan County million yuan in Taxiu Town to develop poverty alleviation 200,000 Committee and County Government projects in cultural tourism industry.

Show warm friendship, deliver love and care to Guinan

Guinan County is in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous “I was injured while working and lost my ability to work. I lived with “The poverty alleviation by SPIC has really benefited the common Prefecture of Qinghai Province. It is located in my mother in a dilapidated adobe house with an area of only 30 people by allowing them to see and feel the benefits. Pastoralists square meters. I really didn’t expect that, last year, with the help of say that what SPIC is doing is a big thing that can help them. Poverty the southeast of Qinghai Province and covers SPIC, we moved into a new house without spending a penny.” alleviation projects are welcomed wherever they are.” a total area of 6593 square kilometers. It is a poverty-stricken county designated by SPIC for -Zhaxi Caidan, a villager in Yuanyi Village, Senduo - Duojie Xiangxiu, village head, Ziha Village, Taxiu Town, poverty alleviation. Since the designation, SPIC Town, Guinan County Guinan County has built 22 standardized village clinics in Guinan County. The clinics are equipped with dedicated “SPIC supports Guinan County with funds, projects and talents. “In the past, the ill villagers could not afford seeing a doctor in the township diagnosis and treatment rooms and equipment, New energy development ideas will boost Guinan County’s hospital or county hospital. They came to me for help. But I had no needles. and there are more than 70 commonly used economic transformation and development.” I only had some most commonly used oral medicines. Nowadays, the most drugs in stock, thus ensuring the health of more common arthritis and even cholecystitis suffered by highland herdsmen can - than 40,000 residents in Guinan. In addition, SPIC Zhang Feng, Head of Guinan county government be treated in the village clinics. All children in the village are vaccinated on time, and the incidence of various common and chronic diseases among has invested funds to help 185 poor households villagers is decreasing year by year.” to carry out reconstruction of dangerous houses and thoroughly solve the problem of dangerous House built without the need Village doctor treats ill villager - Suonan Duodan, village doctor, Taxiu Village, Taxiu houses for poor households in Guinan County. of self-financing Town, Guinan County

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Conforming to local customs to aid Tibet

SPIC actively implements the spirit of the relevant meetings of National Energy Administration and the People’s Government of Tibet Autonomous Region. In June 2012, it signed an agreement with the People’s Government of Tibet Autonomous Region on the construction of power supply projects to aid Tibet during the “12th five-year” period, to jointly promote power supply project construction in unpowered areas of Tibet, with a focus on supporting the construction of Boluo Power Station in Chayu County, Linzhi Prefecture. At the same time, based on the principle of “every time a project is started, By the end of December 2015 a reading room will be built up”, SPIC built the first reading room in Langzhen Primary All the four units of Boluo Hydropower School and gradually spread the spirit of “Ying Shan Hong” volunteering service across Station have been in full-load power the snow-covered plateau. With the completion of SPIC reading rooms one after another, generation status, with coverage SPIC Tibet Company has gradually carried out twinning assistance, care for orphans, donation and other aid activities, making important contributions to the development of of 56.7% of the total education and people’s livelihood in Tibet. population of the county

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Aiding Tibet through Aiding Tibet through power supply projects Charitable donation educational support

SPIC Tibet Company provides twinning support to the construction of the power supply project in SPIC Tibet Company actively promotes In 2015, SPIC donated 1 million yuan to the earthquake- unpowered areas of Chayu County, Linzhi Prefecture, and is responsible for the construction, operation poverty alleviation through educational stricken area of Tibet Autonomous Region on April 25, and management of Boluo Hydropower Station. Through the construction of the twinning assistance support in diversified ways, carries out while its cadres and employees voluntarily donated project in Tibet, it trains local personnel to learn knowledge about small hydropower technology and activities such as power knowledge 25,051 yuan to the disaster-stricken area, all of which management. By the end of December 2015, all the four units of Boluo Hydropower Station had been in education and summer camp, which opens were used to support the people in the disaster-stricken full-load power generation status, with coverage of 56.7% of the total population of the county, providing eyes of children in poor areas, enables the area in earthquake relief and reconstruction of their clean power to more than 12,000 residents and border troops in 4 towns of Chayu County, thus solving the “Ying Shan Hong” volunteering service spirit homes. On August 25, 2015, the development and problem of power consumption for the population without power supply in the county. to flourish on the snow-covered plateau, and reform commission under the people’s government lets our next generation successors bask in of Tibet Autonomous Region sent a thank-you letter to the sunshine and enjoy life. SPIC, expressing its sincere thanks to SPIC and SPIC Tibetan Company, which were deeply concerned about and provide donations to the earthquake-stricken area.

Appreciate the wonderful world and draw closer the distance between you and me

On July 19, 2017, SPIC Tibet Company organized a four-day summer camp for award-winning students in the “reading a SPIC donated 1 good book and telling a good story” speech contest and poor students recommended million yuan to the by primary schools. earthquake-stricken area of Tibet Volunteers spontaneously formed a fleet autonomous region to carry the children out of the pastoral on April 25, 2015 area and into the city. They took the children to visit Tibet Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College, Linzhi Natural The “reading a good book and telling a Its cadres and Museum, and Southeast Tibetan Cultural good story” speech contest employees Heritage Museum (Nyang Pavilion), to voluntarily donated watch patriotic educational films, and to visit the cemetery of martyrs in Linzhi City. Afterwards, the children watched 25,051 children’s movies in the company’s video yuan to the disaster- conference room. The volunteers also stricken area organized children to play table tennis and badminton...

A series of activities enabled these children who have left their homes for the first time to appreciate the wonderful world outside Poor Tibetan students participated in and feel the prosperity of their motherland. the patriotic education activity in front of the office building of Linzhi municipal 孩子们在“映山红”高原爱心书屋 government

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Taking favorable opportunities to aid Xinjiang

SPIC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Company earnestly fulfills its social responsibility, shares its development achievements with the local authorities, participates in the construction of local people’s livelihood projects, the “Visit the People, Benefit the People, and Unite the People” activities in villages and the targeted poverty alleviation activities, helps the local authorities to improve people’s livelihood, helps the masses to In 2010, SPIC provided free aid improve their production and living conditions, and supports for the construction of Wuxuete them to get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as Reservoir in Tuoli County, Tacheng possible. Prefecture, with construction investment of 70 million yuan

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Aiding Xinjiang through Aiding Xinjiang through Aiding Xinjiang through Twinning assistance and power supply projects industrial projects people’s livelihood projects donation to aid students

SPIC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Company While striving to expand the industry scale SPIC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Company A total of 570 Party members and cadres at all levels was established in 2008. In the past 10 years, and improve the operating efficiency, SPIC invested 70 million yuan to help build Wuxuete of SPIC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Company, it completed the fixed asset investment of 29 has insisted on local employment in Xinjiang, Reservoir in Tuoli County, Tacheng Prefecture, including 8 members of the top management team, billion yuan and built installed capacity of 2.91 employing 5,000 local workers, of whom 15.7% which could provide irrigation water of 5.2367 have paired up with ethnic minority workers. They million KW, satisfying the local energy supply are ethnic minority workers. SPIC develops million cubic meters to Wuxuete irrigation area have donated more than 100,000 yuan in cash and demand and promoting the local economic training courses for them according to their every year, ensuring that 20,000 mu of farmland in kind to the twinning ethnic minority workers, solved development. During the “12th five-year plan” working wishes, and designates bilingual and forage land in the irrigation area can be the children schooling problem for 28 twinning period, it invested 43 million yuan to build the employees to provide them with “one-to-one” irrigated with sufficient water, and ensuring ethnic minority workers and the medical treatment independent photovoltaic power supply projects guidance. It also invests 3 million yuan to build the drinking water supply to 8,000 people and problem for 2 twinning ethnic minority workers. in Hotan and Aksu prefectures, and undertook the technical and cultural training centers in 200,000 head of livestock downstream. They also help the twinning ethnic minority 20 years of operation and management, solving Topaairike Village and Tierekeairike Village, to workers in other aspects for more than 500 times, the problem of electricity consumption of help local employees become familiar with the effectively helping the twinning ethnic minority 18997 people from 5,600 households without enterprise environment and job skills as soon workers to solve their work and life problems. power supply in 14 counties of Hotan and Aksu as possible. prefectures. SPIC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Company also actively organizes the “Ying Shan Hong” student aid activities, donating 341070 yuan and 1525 books to 567 out-of-school children in poor families. Solving the problem of electricity Investing million yuan to Topaairike 3 Providing irrigation water of consumption of 18997 people Village and Tierekeairike Village million cubic meters Donating yuan to from 5,600 households in 14 counties 5.2367 341070 of Hotan and Aksu prefectures to Wuxuete irrigation area every year out-of-school children in poor families

Ethnic unity Friendship between Hei Junan and handicapped Uygur girl

In Bashiyujimai Village, Xinjiang, there is a lovely Uygur girl whose name is Nurimanguli Mehdikasim. Due to premature delivery at birth and incomplete It firmly carries out the “Visit the People, Benefit brain development, the 12-year-old girl has the same level of development the People, and Unite the People” activities in as a child of seven or eight years old and has been identified as first-degree villages and the twinning assistance activities. disability. At the right age, Nurimanguli Mehdikasim was unable to go to From 2014 to 2017, SPIC Xinjiang Energy & school and study. She could only stay at home alone and pass the time Chemical Company successively sent 73 cadres under the pomegranate tree. to the designated villages in poor areas of southern Xinjiang to carry out poverty alleviation After learning about the situation, Hei Junan, the head of the working group activities. It pays more than 1,800 visits to send stationed in the village, not only tried to solve the living difficulties of the consolation, and builds the cultural activity family, but also tried to communicate with the girl as much as possible. center for villagers in Bashiyujimai Village. Although there were obstacles in language communication, Hei Junan won the girl’s trust through great efforts. She regarded Hei Junan as her family member. Whenever the girl saw Hei Junan entering the courtyard, she always smiled happily. On April 29, 2014, Hei Junan had to leave the village for a period of time to attend training in Shanghai. He came to the girl’s Cadres stationed in village visit and send home to say goodbye. The girl clung to him and was unwilling to let him go. consolation to old Party members in Bashiyujimai Village Hei Junan said goodbye to Nurimanguli Mehdikasim

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Part One Morality cultivation - from concept to action

SPIC earnestly implements the arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on poverty alleviation. Through industrial projects, educational projects, and people’s livelihood projects, it implements targeted poverty alleviation in poverty-stricken areas, such as Henan Shangcheng, Sichuan Meigu, Shaanxi Yanchuan, Qinghai Guinan, Hunan Wugang, Hebei Fengning, Guizhou Nayong, Yunnan Nujiang, and includes SPIC’s cultural concept of “harmony” into SPIC’s social responsibility for poverty alleviation.

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By the end of 2017

SPIC has undertaken poverty alleviation and aid tasks in 13 provinces and autonomous regions, covering the entire central and western China, including Shangcheng County of Henan, Meigu County of Sichuan, Yanchuan County of Shaanxi, which are the designated poor counties at national level for poverty alleviation; Nayong million yuan had been invested by SPIC for poverty 242 County of Guizhou, Xide County of Sichuan, Lushui County of Yunnan, Fengning County of Hebei, Wugang City of Hunan, Ganzhou in Jiangxi, Xingning in Guangdong, Guinan County in Qinghai, Tongliao in Inner Mongolia alleviation and aid and Hami in Xinjiang are provincial-level designated poverty alleviation counties, and the construction of electricity-free areas is carried out in Yushu of Qinghai, Chayu County of Tibet, Hetian and Aksu of Xinjiang.

63.76 million yuan 67.39 million yuan had been invested to designated had been invested to designated poor counties at national level poor counties at provincial level for poverty alleviation for poverty alleviation

million yuan More than aid Tongliao of Inner Mongolia 111 160 Hami of Xinjiang had been invested for the projects had been implemented construction of power supply facilities in unpowered areas Hetian and Aksu of Xinjiang Fengning County of Hebei

Guinan County of Qinghai key cadres had 2023 135 Yushu of Qinghai Yanchuan County of Shaanxi personnel had been trained been sent to the grassroots for poverty alleviation Shangcheng County of Henan

Chayu County of Tibet Xide County of Sichuan Wugang City of Hunan Meigu County of Sichuan Ganzhou of Jiangxi Nayong County of Guizhou 8434 people had been lifted out of poverty Lushui County of Yunnan Xingning of Guangdong

Designated poor counties at national level for poverty alleviation

Designated poor counties at provincial level for poverty alleviation South China Sea Islands

Twinning counties for poverty alleviation

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SPIC closely combines the poverty alleviation for the “13th five-year plan” period, clarifying the In order to ensure the dedicated use of poverty reasonably and effectively used under the Make planning and assistance work with the implementation guiding ideology, basic principles and overall Implement alleviation funds for poverty alleviation projects transparent supervision. of the spirit of the 19th national congress of the objectives of poverty alleviation during the and registered poor households, and to first, and move Party and the spirit of the central enterprises “13th five-year plan” period. The plan requires transparent ensure that poverty alleviation measures are In 2017, SPIC carried out a comprehensive after planning working conference on poverty alleviation SPIC to adhere to targeted poverty alleviation, supervision, effectively used for targeted poverty alleviation, inspection of the implementation of poverty and development. It firmly binds winning the conduct in-depth investigation and research, and SPIC guides relevant entities to do a good job alleviation projects through household surveys, battle against poverty with fulfilling the social implement policies according to local conditions, and stay true in supervising the use of poverty alleviation seminars, random checks and comparison responsibility of the central enterprise and focus on ensuring income increase, reducing funds based on the local conditions, so as to checks, focusing on the implementation of meeting people’s expectation for a better life. the risk of falling into poverty, and cutting off to the mission ensure the supervision of whole process from national policies, laws, regulations, normative intergenerational transmission of poverty. The project establishment, population identification, documents, relevant rules, and the spirit of In August 2016, SPIC developed the targeted plan also requires SPIC to take multiple measures distribution of funds to identification of poverty notification, as well as the performance of poverty alleviation and twinning assistance plan simultaneously to ensure effectiveness. In 2017 alleviation results. Poverty alleviation funds management personnel in their duties and SPIC carried out are earmarked for poverty alleviation. The the efficiency of the use of poverty alleviation finance and poverty relief offices of the county funds. In 2017, SPIC carried out 118 poverty poverty SPIC has thoroughly implemented General At the same time, SPIC SNPEC, Guizhou 118 government are entrusted with special account alleviation investigations and 7,228 household Work hard for Secretary Xi Jinping’s strategic requirements of Jinyuan, Henan Company and Sichuan management, special account books are surveys. 32 poor villages and 1,050 poor alleviation investigations “targeted approach to alleviating poverty” in the Company have set up their own working households are investigated. 188 seminars and researches established, and poverty alleviation funds implementation, new era. It has always taken poverty alleviation groups on poverty alleviation and assistance. may only be allocated upon being approved were held in various poverty alleviation and assign as a major political task. It has set up a leading They have respectively designated Yanchuan and signed by the seconded cadres, so as locations, forming 13 supervision reports group on poverty alleviation and assistance, with county of Shaanxi, Nayong County of Guizhou, to ensure that all poverty alleviation funds are requiring follow-up inspection. responsibility to a major top leader as the team leader, president Shangcheng County of Henan and Meigu County and vice president in charge of poverty alleviation of Sichuan as their twinning countries for poverty individuals as deputy team leaders, to make decisions on, alleviation, and have formed an effective working guide, coordinate, manage and supervise the mechanism in which the top leaders take overall poverty alleviation and assistance work of the responsibility, the leaders in charge take specific External directors of SPIC went deep into Daliangshan of Sichuan to inspect poverty alleviation work group company. The general office of the leading responsibility, the competent departments take group is subject to the centralized management the lead, and other departments fully cooperate. of the strategic planning department, responsible They have established an organizational structure From October 26 to 27, 2017, SPIC external directors Zhu Hongjie and Liu expressed their respect to SPIC cadre Jikeyisha stationed in the village. for the daily affairs of the leading group and the for poverty alleviation, with clear division of Baoying visited Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province to specific poverty alleviation and assistance tasks, responsibilities and strong safeguard measures, inspect the targeted poverty alleviation and social responsibility fulfillment. The external directors affirmed that Sichuan Company had firmly implemented including internal and external liaison, inspection and have built a good working mechanism of the poverty alleviation plan of the group company based on the actual situation and supervision of poverty alleviation projects, layer-by-layer implementation. In Xide County, the external directors visited Luji Wind Farm in Waxi Village, in Meigu County and implemented a series of targeted poverty alleviation etc. Hongmo Town, to learn about the construction and operation of the wind farm measures in such aspects as infrastructure construction, characteristic industry and its contribution to the local economic and social development. In Meigu development, educational support, and medical insurance. They hoped County, the external directors successively inspected the suspension bridge Sichuan Company continue to make innovation in working methods and make Meng Zhenping visited Yanchuan County of Shaanxi Province to inspect the poverty alleviation work project carried out by SPIC in Abinaishi Village of Zhuku Town and the black key breakthroughs based on the characteristics of Liangshan Autonomous goat raising project carried out in Luobucaiga Village of Lamuajue Town. They Prefecture and Yi culture, improve the operation and management of local new walked into the households to learn more about the production and living energy projects, make greater contributions to the local economic and social On June 14, 2017, Meng Zhenping, President of SPIC and Deputy Secretary of conditions of the villagers, as well as the improvement of the living conditions development on the basis of ensuring safety, and ensure the completion of the the Party Leading Group of SPIC, visited Yanchuan County in Shaanxi province of the villagers after the poverty alleviation work was carried out, and met and poverty alleviation goals in 2020 as scheduled. to inspect the poverty alleviation work and met the seconded cadres to show his respect for their contributions to poverty alleviation. Meng Zhenping went to Liumajiageta Village in Yanchuan County to inspect the construction of poverty alleviation project and listened to the work report of seconded cadres. Meng Zhenping carefully inspected the conditions of watermelons and cantaloupes in the greenhouse base that was built for poverty alleviation. Seeing the working farmers, he asked “How does it taste? What is the sales volume? Is the profit substantial?” Zhou Caifang, a farmer, said happily that “the watermelons and cantaloupes here are quite sweet. Please have a try. Since planting melons in mid-January this year, the first batch of melons and fruits have been sold out, bringing income of more than 30,000 yuan. I dared not even think about Meng Zhenping inspected the poverty it before!” Seeing that the farmers are so confident, Meng Zhenping said that alleviation work in Yanchuan County “in view of the tangible gains, the masses are more willing to work hard to gain more, and their confidence to get rid of poverty is improved. This is the best External directors inspected the black goat raising project External directors talked with villagers feedback on our poverty alleviation work.”

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Part Two Practice - from poverty alleviation based on resource provision to poverty alleviation based on capacity development

PSIC pays attention to targeted implementation of policies, determines the key direction of assistance according to local conditions, integrates various resources, takes effective measures, provides support in a more intensive manner, and does more meticulous work. It coordinates and promotes poverty alleviation through industrial projects, people’s livelihood projects, and educational support. It helps to build a well-off society in an all-round way through a series of poverty alleviation initiatives and works hard to win the battle against poverty.

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The combination of poverty alleviation based on resource provision and Poverty alleviation poverty alleviation based on capacity development has always been Giving full play to advantages in photovoltaic poverty alleviation the basic principle of SPIC in poverty alleviation and development. It through industrial finds targeted ways to help the poor, selects best industrial projects, projects creates a accurately identifies poverty-stricken areas, makes tailor-made The photovoltaic poverty alleviation project is a people’s development strategies for them, makes efforts to build momentum livelihood project jointly invested by SPIC and Shangcheng sustainable future for local development and enhance the endogenous driving force for county government, with a total investment of 47 million yuan. In development, helps poor people embark on a path of sustainable self- 2017, SPIC Henan Company invested another 4.7 million yuan development, changes the living conditions of poor people in rural to build 60 KW photovoltaic power stations in 110 poor villages, areas, and makes every effort to win the battle against poverty and benefiting 4,506 poor people of 1,320 poor households. achieve tangible results. By the end of June 2017, all the 110 power stations were connected to the grid for power generation, the company’s photovoltaic poverty alleviation goal during the “13th five- Giving full play to industrial advantages year plan” period was completed ahead of schedule, and and focusing on poverty alleviation through Shangcheng County became the first county where full-coverage village-level photovoltaic power stations were put into operation Village-level power station in power supply project in Henan province. Shangcheng County, Henan Province

SPIC gives full play to the advantages of power enterprise, makes use of The completion of the photovoltaic poverty alleviation project can the advantages of local energy resources to develop new energy power not only ensure that 1320 poor households in the county have projects, drives local economic development, promotes employment, a stable income of 3,000 yuan per year and continue to benefit raises local per capita income, fundamentally and vigorously promotes from it for 20 years, but also increase the county’s fiscal revenue the targeted poverty alleviation, and takes targeted approach to and contribute to local economic and social development. alleviating poverty.

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ant poverty alleviation achievem Import ents of SPIC’s power supply activities The three poverty alleviation initiatives of the first secretary in the village

Sichuan Xide County Hunan Wugang City Hou Xiaoliang Hou Xiaoliang is a seconded SPIC cadre as the First households during the spring festival. In the past, Qi Secretary in Xinqiao Village, Shangcheng County, Baolin only cared about his own life, but now he leads Henan Province. From an employee working at the 14 poor households to get richer. In the past, Qi Baolin By the end of 2017, SPIC Sichuan Company had SPIC Wuling Power gives full play to the industrial group headquarters to the first secretary in a rural rode a motorcycle to do business, but now he drives invested in the construction of eight wind power projects advantages and builds a 60 KW photovoltaic power Seconded SPIC cadre as village, he has experienced a lot and gained a lot. his car to do business. In the past, Qi Baolin earned in Xide County, with a total installed capacity of 198 MW station in Yuping Village, Wugang City, Hunan Province, the First Secretary in Xinqiao an annual income of 30,000 yuan, but now he earns As an old saying goes, a newly appointed official takes an annual income of over 400,000 yuan. In the past, Qi in the fourth phase, and an estimated annual turnover of which can bring fixed income to the villagers every year Village, Shangcheng County, Henan Province new initiatives. His first initiative was to visit households Baolin was unwilling to listen to the Party’s policies, but 190 million yuan, increasing local tax revenue of more and realize the sustainable development of the village in the village and write down their difficulties and now he takes the initiative to submit an application for than 32 million yuan and creating 200 jobs per year. collective economy. needs. Some asked him for subsistence allowances, joining the Party. Qi Baolin, a gangster in the villagers’ some asked him to help pay the electricity bill, and eyes in the past, has changed. He tells everyone that another confidently expressed the ambition to do the the Party’s policies are good and it is right to follow the farming business and asked him to help guarantee the party’s call. A single flower does not make the spring, loan. The village cadres accompanying him winked at while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden. The change of Qi Baolin has aroused him, and later told him that person was a well-known the enthusiasm of other villagers. bet and borrowed money from everyone in the village, and he would gamble if he had money. As a result, Hou Xiaoliang launched his third initiative. Through unremitting efforts, the photovoltaic power Poverty alleviation requires a change of attitude. His generation project in Xinqiao Village realized grid- second initiative was to set up a typical example. connected power generation in June 2017. The project Through unremitting efforts, he identified a villager Qi benefits 20 poor households and can bring about Baolin as his target, told him about the Party’s policies income of 3000 yuan to each poor household every Wind Farm in Xide County Photovoltaic power station and opportunities for development. Qi Baolin didn’t year. Thanks to the success of the pilot photovoltaic listen. Hou Xiaoliang visited Qi Baolin and his farm power generation project in Xinqiao Village, the project many times, guided Qi Baolin to mark the eggs laid has been introduced to 110 poor villages throughout by local chickens with green food label and pack the county and is expected to help more than 1,300 them in cardboard boxes, helped Qi Baolin to use the households out of poverty. “internet+” platform and sell eggs all over the country.

Guizhou Nayong County Hebei Fengning County Soon, Qi Baolin’s eggs were in short supply, and he Poverty alleviation is a crucial task, but the cadres earned a lot. In the past, Qi Baolin lived in poverty stationed in villages work hard and pay attention to Guizhou Jinyuan gives full play to the advantages of rich Dongfang Energy (Hebei Company) donated 1.49 million yuan to and complained he could not enjoy subsistence every detail to complete this task. They really show the coal resources in Nayong County and develops local coal- Laomiaoying Village and Chagoumen Village for the development of allowances just because he lived in a better house, but sense of responsibility and mission of the communist photovoltaic projects. With the roofs of the village committees of the two now he is richer and sends fish and meat to the poor party members! fired power industry, making Nayong an important energy villages as the main body, 180 KW and 54 KW rooftop photovoltaic power base for “west-to-east power transmission” and “Guizhou- stations were built respectively. The village collective annual income to-Guangdong power transmission”, and driving the increased by more than 320,000 yuan, of which 60% was used to support development of transportation, commerce, catering and poor households and 40% was used to increase the village collective income, driving 120 poor households to steadily increase their income and other related industries in the county. thoroughly solving the problem of zero village collective income.

Photovoltaic power station featured by the Rooftop photovoltaic power generation project combination of photovoltaic power generation and Article source: http://bbs.deey.cn agricultural planting

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Suiting measures to Experience of getting rich by raising black goats “According to the county conditions and “Every goat can be sold at 1,000-1,200 local conditions poverty characteristics, black goat was yuan, and I have already earned nearly Providing targeted identified as a high-quality goat breed 10,000 yuan in less than a year. In the past, Black goat is a special breed of goat in raising area and scale, purchasing 2,800 family of five earned only 3,000 yuan a in Meigu County, with strong fertility, low my family earned about 3,000 yuan per year, technical requirements for animal husbandry, and the family of five lived on 3,000 yuan. assistance Meigu County, Sichuan Province. It has ewes for villagers in 3 poor villages of year. The days are much better now.” and quick realization of economic benefits. At present, villagers in the three villages strong fertility, is easy to breed, and has Niuniuba Town, Luoeyigan Town and They are suitable for local villagers who of Lamuajue Town have already lifted high economic value. For a long time, Lamuajue Town, planting high-quality Nowadays, the industrialized raising of generally do not have animal husbandry themselves out of poverty by black goat Industries are the key to increasing neither scale industry nor brand had been forage grass, resulting in an average black goats has benefited 3,100 poor experience and techniques. We finally raising.” income and not returning to pervert. established for goat raising, due to the lack annual income increase of 8,000 yuan households in 10 towns of Meigu County. decided to support the development of goat SPIC insists on poverty alleviation raising industry in Meigu County. “ -Jige Mahei of local people’s understanding and the for 700 poor households in the project Like Jige Mahei, villagers in three villages based on capacity development, of Lamuajue Town have already lifted Villager, Luobucaiga Village, Lamuajue lack of financial support. area. At present, scale industry and brand - Shen Taiming takes into account the conditions themselves out of poverty by raising black Town have been gradually formed for black Seconded SPIC cadre in Meigu of agriculture, forestry, fishery and Since 2016, SPIC Sichuan Company, goats. The cherished black goats in small goat raising in Meigu County. Its social County, Sichuan animal husbandry industry in poor through investigations and demonstrations, influence is continuously increasing, and courtyards have not only changed the life areas, as well as the village conditions has made “industrialized goat raising” a it has become an important characteristic in the poor countryside, but also changed and customs, makes comprehensive key and characteristic industrial poverty industrial project for poor households to get the development mode of “waiting for policies to help poor areas find alleviation project for targeted poverty rid of poverty and become rich. help”. appropriate industrial projects, alleviation. It has invested 3.1 million yuan “It really took some time to make villagers who only knew farming to accept goat raising. Last cultivates the self-development October, Sichuan Company invested 3.1 million yuan to buy and distribute 5 ewes to every poor to purchase 2,500 ewes, 125 rams and “The ewes are going to give birth again. household in the village, but some villagers did not understand. They thought that they didn’t ability of poor people, teaches them 438 mu of high-quality forage grass in 5 Each goat can be sold at 1,000-1,200 have enough to eat themselves, what else did they feed the goats? I visited and persuaded these methods to get rid of poverty, and poor villages of Jiukou Town and Lamuajue yuan, and I have earned nearly 10,000 villagers with outdated ideas many times, telling them that increasing income from goat raising helps build the driving forces for local Town, Meigu County, helping 620 poor yuan in less than a year.” Villager Jige was quick and effective. The villagers who had not accepted it at first were finally persuaded and brought the black goats back to their homes.” development. households to increase their income by Mahei told the reporter with a smile, while 2,000 yuan per person and 8,000 yuan per feeding goats with forage grass. “In - Jike Yisha household every year. In 2017, Sichuan the past, my family only grew corn and Seconded SPIC cadre of Yi nationality as the First Secretary, Hema Village, Lamuajue Company continued to expand the goat potatoes on three mu of dry land, and the Meigu goat raising industry Town, Meigu County

Clean water and blue sky highlights west Hunan - a new town built for immigrants moving from the site of Wanmipo Hydropower Plant

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nt poverty alleviation achieve Our Practice Importa ments of SPIC’s industrial activities

Ningxia Jingyuan County Yunnan Lushui County Guizhou Nayong County Hebei Fengning County Sichuan Xide County Shaanxi Yanchuan County

SPIC Aluminum & Power Company actively SPIC Yunnan International has set up a “one- SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan vigorously develops Dongfang Energy (Hebei Company) has SPIC Sichuan Company invested 1 million SPIC SNPTC has innovatively proposed to develops forage grass, livestock, seedling, to-one” aid system in small villages inhabited the cow raising industry. 391 people from 92 carefully planned eight projects, such as yuan in Ani Village to implement the build vegetable greenhouses and to focus on beekeeping and other industries that make by Lemo People, a branch of Bai nationality. households benefited from the cow raising greenhouse vegetable planting, donkey ecological pig raising, goat raising, and developing vegetable greenhouse planting people rich. Since the implementation of In 2017, it visited 203 poor households and project in Zuowodi Village, and the per capita targeted poverty alleviation, 30 registered invested 123,000 yuan to introduce ginger income of the poor people covered by the raising and duck raising, and has facilitated green pepper planting projects that are in industry. It has built 210 fifth-generation poor households have been supported to seedlings, yam seedlings and seeds. After project increased by 2117-2588 yuan. 364 the introduction of more than 11 million line with the wishes of the local villagers, reinforced vegetable greenhouses for 96 raise 101 heads of cattle, plant over 700 mu the industry was fully developed, the per people from 117 households benefited from yuan to social assistance projects in the two laying a solid foundation for the whole village poor households. Each greenhouse can of high-quality forage grass and breed 827 capita income increased by 2,000 yuan per the cow raising project in Haiyong Village, boxes of bees. This has solved the problem villages. to get rid of poverty. bring income of 20,000 yuan per year to year. and the per capita income of the poor of the surplus labor force of women and the poor households.. people covered by the project increased by elderly left behind and basically lifted the whole village out of poverty. 2818-3445 yuan.

Developing beekeeping industry, processing Ginger grown by poor households Cow raising project in Haiyong Village Building vegetable greenhouses Ecological pig raising Newly built fifth-generation reinforced and selling high-quality native honey greenhouses

First Secretary in Liumajiageta Village can’t afford to be idle

Qi Chuanjiang Qi Chuanjiang is a seconded SPIC cadre as the First For the villagers, there are too many unknown risks in Since assuming office in the village, Qi Chuanjiang has Secretary in Liumajiageta Village, Yanchuan County, growing vegetables in greenhouses, such as the lack helped farmers grow vegetables in greenhouses and seek Shaanxi Province. Every morning, when the rising of capital and technology, and the risk of vegetables for buyers, and aided children from poor families to go to sun shines through the window into the room, Qi not being able to be sold. When villager Zhong school. Some villagers did not understand the planting Seconded SPIC cadre Chuanjiang, 53 years old, started to do his daily work. Chunxiang saw that his wife Hao Xiumei had the technology, so Qi Chuanjiang invited the agricultural as the First Secretary intention to sign the contract, he lost his temper at her technicians to provide villagers with on-site teaching. in Liumajiageta Village, There are 461 households and 1,360 people in on the spot. Two years ago, Zhong Chunxiang spent When the villagers began to plow the land, he rolled up Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Liumajiageta Village. 270 people are permanent all his family’s savings on kidney disease treatment. his sleeves to join them. When the seedlings were healthy, residents in the village, including 285 poor people He was afraid that the whole family would have no he helped water the seedlings and roll the curtain. When Province from 86 poor households. Since SPIC launched its money to live on, if the greenhouse vegetable planting the seedlings were ill, he was more anxious than the twinning assistance initiative, the village has actively was proved to be a failure. villagers, hurriedly checked the data and ran to the town implemented the development planning of “planting to consult with experts. When the melons were ripe, the fruit trees on the mountain, building greenhouses on After learning about the situation, Qi Chuanjiang villagers asked Qi Chuanjiang to have a try, but he never agricultural land and developing aquaculture where visited Zhong Chunxiang’s family many times, agreed, because he could not bear to eat these melons “After graduating from junior high school, I started working in the city. Although I worked hard, I there is plenty of water” put forward by the township telling Zhong Chunxiang about the loan application and wanted villagers to earn more money by selling more still didn’t save much money in the end. I didn’t know where to go. In the first half of 2016, SPIC party committee and the township government. In procedures of poor households, about the agricultural melons. and Yanchuan county government jointly invested in the construction of fifth-generation reinforced 2016, SPIC and Yanchuan county government built 36 technicians hired by the government, and helped greenhouses in the village. I took part in the construction of greenhouses. In 2017, I had my own standard greenhouses for the village. At that time, all him calculate the profit from greenhouse vegetable Nowadays, melons in the villagers’ greenhouses have greenhouse and planted 1,500 melon seedlings. In that year, I earned more than 20,000 yuan. It villagers withdrew when hearing that they had to invest planting, and telling him that greenhouse vegetable been sold on the market. In view of the tangible gains, the was SPIC that brought us hope!” Article source: Shaanxi Daily more than 20,000 yuan for each greenhouse to buy planting was safe and profitable. Zhong Chunxiang’s masses are more willing to work hard to gain more, and greenhouse film, cotton curtain and rolling machine. attitude changed gradually and eventually became their confidence to get rid of poverty is improved. -- Zhang Zhifa the first poor household to sign the contract. Villager in Liumajiageta Village, Jiajiaping Town, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province

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Bridge over the reservoir of Dahonghe Power Station built by Chongqing Shizitan Power Generation Company

The way of settling the people is to examine their sufferings. People’s Poverty alleviation urgent expectations are to solve the public service, infrastructure, Highlighting infrastructure construction and responding accurately to people’s livelihood demands basic medical care and other livelihood problems in poor areas and to through people’s improve the living conditions of the poor. These expectations are also livelihood projects the directions for SPIC to carry out its poverty alleviation activities. SPIC Before 2016, all the villagers of Jinman Village in Yunnan lived in houses called responds accurately to people’s livelihood demands, improves people’s “Qianjiao Building” with wooden poles as piles, fences as walls, and wooden boards safeguards people’s livelihood, uses funds in a targeted manner, attaches importance to the as roofs. There were no hardened roads and no ancillary facilities such as drinking concentrated effect of poverty alleviation initiatives, and ensures the water conditioning ponds, sewage and drainage pipes, and public toilets, in the village. The masses suffered from the difficulty to travel, drink water, and transport. basic livelihood of the poor. happiness The “poor living conditions, poor sanitation, and poor living environment” in the village has become one of the most realistic and urgent problems.

According to the actual situation of Jinman Village, SPIC Yunnan International started Wining the support of the people by with the improvement of infrastructure, focused on the most urgent needs of the masses, accurately responded to people’s livelihood expectations and improved infrastructure construction people’s livelihood. With an investment of 1.8 million yuan, three village-level roads have been rebuilt, expanded and hardened successively, which has solved the historical problem of “difficulty of travel, unsafe traffic and high transportation costs”. Weak infrastructure construction is a “common fault” in poor areas and “Light-steel house” after It also organized the investigation of geological hazards in Jinman Village, and put an important bottleneck restricting development. Since the poverty forward the renovation plan of “relocation and light-steel house building”. By the end renovation alleviation activities were carried out, SPIC has aimed at improving the of 2017, 70 of the 153 poor households supported by Yunnan International had been infrastructure of poor villages, firmly grasping the key to infrastructure relocated to the unified settlement site in Bani Town, and 36 “light-steel houses” had construction and making efforts to improve the living environment of the been built up. masses.

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Shaanxi Yanchuan County Yunan Lushui County Henan Shangcheng County Hunan Wugang City Sichuan Meigu County Guizhou Nayong County

SPIC SNPTC donated 250,000 yuan SPIC Yunnan International has SPIC Henan Company aims to SPIC Wuling Power invested 9.15 million SPIC Sichuan Company invested 4.6 million SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan carries out the public to build a bridge with the height of 2.5 successively invested more than 2 million improve the infrastructure of poor yuan in infrastructure construction, yuan in eight villages of Meigu County to drinking water project, road hardening, meters, the width of 4 meters and the yuan to carry out people’s livelihood villages, builds convenient service hardening 11 kilometers of roads, build eight suspension bridges, which bridge construction, cultural square length of 17 meters in Liumajiageta projects such as road hardening, centers, community cultural squares, rebuilding 31 dangerous houses, repairing solved the difficulty of travel for more than construction, fitness square construction, Village, to facilitate the travel of farmers. construction of sewage and drainage elderly service centers, village clinics, two key ponds and 5 kilometers of canals, 5,000 people. It invested 4.7 million yuan in cultural training center construction and It also organized employees to buy pipes, construction of ancillary facilities of newly builds and hardens 13.5km of renovating the whole village primary two villages to implement the relocation and other supporting infrastructure construction, 300,000 catties of unsalable apples elderly service center, and construction village roads, improves the supporting school, and comprehensively solving the poverty alleviation, helping 181 poor people promotes the sales of agricultural products and Chinese dates from Yanchuan of drinking water project for people and facilities of village primary schools and problem of unsafe drinking water. This has to build new Yi houses and to realize the from poor villages to the outside world, County, easing the sales pressure on livestock, providing convenience for township nursing homes, and builds fundamentally improved the production goal of “living in a good house”. and improves the working skills of the poor farmers. It installed solar street lamps villagers to travel, drink water, see doctor, water pipelines for safe drinking water and living conditions of the city and laid the population, benefiting more than 20,000 for several villages, lightening villagers’ and further improving the living conditions project, benefiting more than 4000 foundation for the whole city to get rid of people. road to wealth with clean energy. of the poor population. people. poverty one year ahead of schedule.

Organizing employees to buy Newly built elderly service center in Building Liluocheng Road in New look of Yuping Village New Yi houses Bridge construction in Jieshang unsalable apples Jinman Village Shangcheng County Village

Making every effort to fulfill the responsibilities

Li Zhanhong As an outstanding cadre selected by SPIC Guizhou than 1.2 million government funds to complete the invested 495,600 yuan to build a household Jinyuan to aid Nayong County, Li Zhanhong has been hardening of Luojiazhaitongzu Road, Chetianduantou water supply network, thus solving the problem the first secretary in Jieshang Village of Yangchang Road and Dashuigoutongzu Road, totaling 4.015 of unsafe drinking water for 1,362 people of Town for nearly two years. Over the past two years, kilometers, and to complete the hardening of 7 roads 461 households in Jieshang Village. Seconded SPIC cadre he has focused on publicizing the Party’s principles connecting 11 households, totaling 600 meters, and as the First Secretary in and policies, promoting economic development, the hardening of courtyard land totaling 130 square Hard work always pays off. In 2017, Li Jieshang Village, Nayong promoting targeted poverty alleviation, improving meters. He also helped implement the Chetianxiaohe Zhanhong was awarded the title of “advanced County, Guizhou Province village governance, earnestly performing his duties in Bridge construction project. 987,700 yuan was individual for poverty alleviation” in Nayong the village, and ensuring that the work in the village is invested into the project, which benefited 568 people County. In response, Li Zhanhong was quite carried out in a healthy and orderly manner. of 166 households in three villagers’ groups directly. calm. He said “poverty alleviation is a very In order to solve the problem of unsafe drinking challenging task. Although certain results “If you want to be rich, build roads first.” Although have been achieved, we must clearly see the water, Li Zhanhong went to the mountains and rivers Jieshang Village is only 7 kilometers away from the shortcomings in our work. In the future, I will to find water sources, and transported water pipes town, all the roads to the town are dirt roads. When do my best to continue to help the common Article source: Magazine “Enterprise for drinking water project. With a total investment of it rains, the already uneven path becomes muddy. people get rid of poverty as soon as possible.” Decision-Making” affiliated to Guizhou 549,800 yuan, 8 large water pools were built and State-Owned Assets Supervision and Through coordination and communication for many 3,586 meters of main pipes were installed. Thanks to Administration Commission times, Li Zhanhong successfully applied for more Li Zhanhong’s coordination, Nayong Water Authority

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SPIC actively mobilizes its employees and all sectors of society to participate in various Poverty alleviation through forms of poverty alleviation activities, such as medical aid for serious illness, social welfare public welfare projects activities, donations in cash and in kind, to deliver love and care to the poor and effectively Gericuo’s light-seeking journey solve the urgent problems and difficulties of the poor people. Journey of love

Zhang Lei and Dong Zhujia When Zhang Lei and Dong Zhujia first saw Gericuo, because my body couldn’t afford it.” When talking she was walking into the room with cow dung from about the experience of dropping out of school, the yard. The cold wind whistled, so she did not Gericuo couldn’t help but shed tears. All this was notice that someone came into the room. Zhang Lei seen by Zhang Lei and Dong Zhujia, who swore Caring for families in need and implementing basic safeguard measures SPIC poverty alleviation and Dong Zhujia said hello, and she looked back in in silence that “we will find a way to treat Gericuo’s cadres stationed in Yangqi astonishment, and then said hello to Zhang Lei and illness and help her return to school.” Village, Qinghai Dong Zhujia. Located in Shuguang Town, Nayong County, stationed in the village helped the families with difficulties, widows, orphans Subsequently, they launched a “light-seeking action” Guizhou Province, Hegou Village is an extremely and the disabled to pay the cooperative medical expenses, helped students Yangqi Village, where Gericuo lives, is the twinning rapidly. Zhang Lei and his colleagues in the poverty poor village. The village covers an area of 7.8 from poor families to apply for subsistence allowances, and organized village of SPIC Huanghe Company for poverty alleviation office tried to get the support of Huanghe square kilometers and has a population of 2650 charitable donation activities. alleviation. It is located in Zeku County of Huangnan Company, visited hospitals in Xining City, and finally people from 567 households. 640 people from 165 Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and relies on animal decided to send Gericuo to the first people’s hospital households have not been lifted out of poverty. In addition, SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan did its best to create conditions to help husbandry for a living. Zhang Lei is the first secretary students grow up, and organized professionals to explain relevant knowledge in Xining City for examination and treatment. All the The per capita income is relatively low and some in Yangqi Village, a poverty alleviation cadre of SPIC families are extremely poor. After getting to know about safe electricity use to students, so that the students can establish expenses were borne by Huanghe Company. Huanghe Company stationed in the village. Dong the situation, SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan and its cadres awareness of safe electricity use in their life and improve their living ability. Zhujia, a Tibetan young man, is a poverty alleviation When learning that she could receive treatment free cadre appointed by SPIC Huanghe Company. of charge, Gericuo was both excited and worried. After working as poverty alleviation cadres in the She was glad that she could get the disease treated, village, Zhang Lei and Dong Zhujia quickly adapted while she was afraid that her illness could not be themselves to life in the village. They sorted out cured and bring more misfortune to her family. nt poverty alleviation achieve the existing data, recreated the missing files, and Importa ments of However, Gericuo’s mother said firmly to Zhang Lei SPIC’s public welfare activities assisted the township government in finishing data and Dong Zhujia: “I am not afraid at all. There will be review for the year-end inspection. They visited a chance of improvement if she receives treatment. households one by one and talked with villagers I can do everything, as long as Gericuo can get one by one to check the data, so that the survey of better.” 18 poor households who had relocated from other places was completed in the shortest possible time. After nearly 300 kilometers of long-distance travel, Gericuo was admitted to the hospital and carefully They met Gericuo for the first time during a Sichuan Meigu County Guizhou Nayong County Hebei Fengning County examined by experts from the hospital. Accompanied household visit. On that day, Zhang Lei and Dong and assisted by the cadres stationed in the village, Zhujia visited Gericuo’s home. Gericuo seemed very Gericuo recovered slowly and finally returned to SPIC Sichuan Company actively In August 2017, after the massive Hebei Company donated more than happy during the conversation. Sometimes, she held school after rounds of travel, expert consultation and carries out medical aid for serious landslide in Pusa Community of 10,000 pieces of clothing to poor her younger brother in her arms, and at other times, treatment. illness. From 2016 to 2017, it invested Zhangjiawan Town, the employees of households and lonely elderly in poor she picked up her books and flipped them over. She was as lovely as other teenage girls. However, a total of 800,000 yuan to carry out Nayong Power Plant operated by SPIC villages, donated electromagnetic Looking at Gericuo, who returned to school and 16-year-old Gericuo suffered from congenital heart the special campaign “solving urgent Guizhou Jinyuan donated 98,000 ovens and other consolations worth smiled brilliantly, Zhang Lei and Dong Zhujia recalled disease. Children of this age should have studied problems and difficulties”, carrying out yuan to the affected villagers, and over 60,000 to more than 280 families the dream of this beautiful girl: “I want to study hard in the classroom, talked with their classmates about medical aid for serious illness of poor visited and provided psychological in need, and donated cultural facilities and live in a big city in the future. I want to bring my people registered at the aid information counseling to the affected villagers. worth over 90,000 yuan to enrich their dreams, but Gericuo dropped out of school because of congenital heart disease. “I often had the mother with me, so that she can live a better life.” platform in Meigu County, Sichuan, to villagers’ life. symptoms of pain and dizziness in my eyes when I solve the difficulty of seeing doctor for In order to help Gericuo realize her dream, they will was in grade one of junior high school. At that time, more than 160 people. do more... I often took leave. Later, I had to drop out of school,

On-site donation in the “poverty Nayong Power Plant donated money Visiting and providing consolations to poor alleviation day” activity to people affected by the geological households disaster in Zhangjiawan, Nayong County Article source: www.qhnews.com

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The most difficult task for poverty alleviation is to eliminate the root At the same time, SPIC has actively explored a new mode of “finance Poverty alleviation cause of poverty, and the greatest vision is to change the future. Poverty + charity” and has successively launched projects, such as “Bairui alleviation requires the support of education. SPIC insists on eliminating Number of poor students Benevolence - Ying Shan Hong Charity Trust” and “Bairui Benevolence - aided to back to school: through educational poverty from the source, providing educational support to improve the Angel Fund”, to promote the development of public welfare undertakings support lightens quality of the poor population, blocking intergenerational transmission of students through “finance + charity”. Since 2016, Bairui Trust has begun to poverty through poverty alleviation, and preventing the phenomenon of 8359 explore the operation mode of charitable trust, put “Ying Shan Hong” civilization returning to poverty. SPIC not only helps the poor people become rich, funds valued at more than 2.8 million accumulated over the years under but also makes them more educated, and supports the poor people to professional management, and based on this, it has set up the “Bairui create a visible future with their own hands. Benevolence - Ying Shan Hong Charity Trust” project. This is the first charitable trust in the country with the youth league committee of a Master Station “映山红” central enterprise as the principal, establishing a new mode for central enterprises to carry out public welfare activities. 工作体系 “Ying Shan Hong” student aid campaign In 2017, the “Ying Shan Hong” student aid campaign website and the “Ying Shan Hong” public welfare fund continued to operate in a healthy way. The “Ying Working System Letting children in poor areas receive good education is an Shan Hong” working system with “main station + workstation + service important task for poverty alleviation and an important way to block station” as its management structure was further improved, and 8,359 Workstations Service Stations intergenerational transmission of poverty. Since the launch of the “Ying poor students were supported to attend school. A database of poor Shan Hong” student aid campaign in 2003, nearly 100 entities of the students has been established. All employees participate in twinning group company have been carrying out the “Ying Shan Hong” student assistance activities in a “one-to-one” and “face-to-face” manner. SPIC aid projects every year to help students in poor and remote areas. has also launched an innovative project called “remote assistance to students”, actively guiding and mobilizing social resources to participate in poverty alleviation.

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Important achievements of SPIC’s student aid activities Poverty alleviation through educational support delivers love and care

Jinman Village, Luobenzhuo Town, Lushui City, Nujiang Fa Siyi and his family live in Jinman Village. Both parents Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is located on Gaoligong are unable to engage in heavy manual labor due to illness. Shaanxi Yanchuan County Hebei Fengning County Hunan Wugang City Mountains, with per capita arable land area of only 0.6 There is also an 80-year-old grandmother in the family. mu. The farming structure is simple. It has no access to Four members of the family huddle in a 50-square-meter any major road. The overall literacy of the masses is low, house called “Qianjiao Building” with wooden poles as Since 2017, SPIC SNPTC has provided Dongfang Energy (Hebei Company) SPIC Wuling Power invested 400,000 and the resources are underdeveloped. The economic piles and wooden boards as roof, where people live on the twinning aid to 100 poor students in helped apply for more than 40,000 yuan in renovating the whole village development is slow, and the poverty rate is 73.3%. It is an second floor and the raised animals live on the first floor. Yanchuan County. The aid is 1,000 yuan to pay the tuition fees, aided 7 primary school, equipping it with object that needs to be focused on in poverty alleviation The life is very difficult. yuan per person per year for primary poor students, set up the volunteering computers, computer desks and chairs, work in Nujiang. school students, 2,000 yuan per person service station in Laomiaoying Village, school bus, multimedia education and In September 2017, Fa Siyi was admitted to Zhaotong per year for secondary school students, established a long-term linkage outdoor equipment, and employing In 2015, SPIC Yunnan International started to provide Minzu College in Yunnan and received the admission twinning assistance to Jinman Village. Based on the and 3,000 yuan for college students mechanism with relevant social 2 additional teachers, setting up an notice. He was very happy with his achievements in philosophy of “poverty alleviation requires the support once and for all. organizations, and took the lead in additional grade, and increasing the studying hard for many years. However, considering his of education and a change of attitude”, it starting with bringing together social assistance number of students to 24. family conditions, he had no money to study in the college. providing educational support for poverty alleviation. forces. In order not to increase the burden on his parents, he It carefully interpreted the “educational assistance quietly hid the notice. After the working group on poverty policy diagram and policy questions and answers” alleviation learned of this situation, it immediately took the to poor households, explaining in detail the policies benefiting people, such as educational subsidy for pre- lead in making donations for Fa Siyi and actively applied school students, “two exemptions and one subsidy” for for financial aid of the company, thus relieving the urgent compulsory education, “nutrition improvement”, and need of Fa Siyi. subsidy for poor students. It invested more than 100,000 yuan to aid 81 secondary school students and college “I have lived for such a long time, only the communist party students, realizing their dream of going to school, and built houses and gave money to the people and gave injecting momentum to block intergenerational transmission money to the children who went to school. The communist Helping twinning poor students Funding primary school The primary school in Yuping Village of poverty and boost poverty alleviation. party is really good!” Fa Siyi’s 80-year-old grandmother raised her thumb to express her gratitude after learning has taken on a completely new look. With the help of SPIC Yunnan International, poor students that the working group had solved her grandson’s problem returned to school and continued to pursue their dreams. of having no money to go to school.

Yunnan Lushui County Henan Shangcheng County Beijing Remote assistance to students

SPIC Yunnan International, based on “two SPIC Henan Company invested SPIC initiated the “remote assistance exemptions and one subsidy” and other 360,000 yuan to carry out the student to students” campaign, with 146 Party national compulsory education policies aid campaign to help 88 poor cadres in the first batch participating benefiting the people, granted educational undergraduate students in Shangcheng in twinning assistance activities, aiding aid fund of 60,000 yuan to help more than County to complete their studies. 100 outstanding poor students with 40 poor students admitted to colleges more than 105,000 yuan. and universities to realize their dream of studying in a university, preventing the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

Granting education aid fund Xinqiao Primary School built with the Granting remote assistance fund aid of SPIC

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Story of Xia Chenxing, a poverty alleviation cadre Carrying out employment training One training session offers lifelong benefits. One family member is employed and the whole family is stationed in the village lifted out of poverty. The development of poor areas depends on endogenous driving force. SPIC pays Xia Chenxing It has been more than three months since Xia till early morning and slept with mosquito attention to the training of people’s skills in poor Chenxing came to Jinman Village in June 2017 bites. Everyone was exhausted. areas, increases the employment opportunities of to help the poor. He is over 40 years old, not Results of training sessions organized by SPIC (2015-2017) tall, with a square face and a slightly chubby After five days of intensive work, they poor people, ensures that at least one labor force of a SPIC poverty alleviation body. Everyone calls him “Brother Xia”. successfully completed the data collection of poor household masters 1-2 practical techniques for the villagers’ group headed by Xu Qiubo. On cadre and leader of the Investment in training (10,000 yuan) getting rich and participates in at least one income working group on poverty On June 30, 2017, Jinman Village started the morning of July 5, Xia Chenxing and his increasing project such as characteristic planting, alleviation in Jinman Village, the work of “dynamic identification and collogues got up early and began to collect Number of participants (people) management” of poor households, which data of the villager’ group headed by Ze greenhouse planting and animal husbandry. Luobenzhuo Town, Lushui required a second investigation of the resident Gandeng. Number of training sessions organized (sessions) City, Yunnan Province population of the whole village. The scope In 2017, SPIC invested 865,500 yuan in training of work is wide, the time is tight, and the Jinman Village in midsummer is full of trees, to improve the employability of the poor and help task is heavy. On the afternoon of June 30, flowers and birds. Walking in the mountains, 98.20 7267 them get out of poverty. Through the construction people can have a panoramic view of the Xia Chenxing and his collogues came to the of training centers and the use of resources from home of Xu Qiubo, a villagers’ group leader, beautiful scenery. “Xiao Zhang, these data 5140 86.55 and started their work intensively. However, of villagers are of great significance for the government departments and professional colleges the data collection was not as smooth as State to formulate poverty alleviation policies. 4467 35 and universities, 35 training sessions were organized, expected. The villagers of Jinman Village We must continue working hard these days.” 76.70 with a total of 7,267 people participating in the cultivated land at the foot of the mountain and Brother Xia said with a smile to his collogue. 11 training sessions. The labor export training benefited their homes are on the mountain. They left They walked on the rugged path in the 15 800 people and directly helped 2,215 people out of early and returned late. There was basically no mountains, talking and laughing. one at home during the day. Xia Chenxing and poverty. his collogues could only see villagers in the Slowly, Brother Xia’s pace slowed down. He 2015 2016 2017 morning and evening. In addition, language started to breath heavily and blood flowed communication barrier required village cadres out of his nostrils. At first, everyone thought to translate at the same time. The progress that Brother Xia’s capillary vessel ruptured, of data collection was very slow. On the first and pressing the nostril for a while could stop day, villager data of only 3 households were the bleeding. After a while, Brother Xia’s face collected. In view of the progress, it was began to turn white, with bean-sized sweat expected to take nearly a month to complete on his forehead and half-closed eyes. At that the data collection of nearly 60 households time, they realized that Brother Xia was ill, of 3 villagers’ groups, which was far from but since there were no medical treatment satisfying the requirements. conditions at all on site, they immediately Providing skills training based on school-enterprise cooperation to help poor students build their hometown reported the situation to their superior and Xia Chenxing was anxious about it, and requested support. immediately took countermeasures. On the next day, he asked team members to get up at “Brother Xia from SPIC is ill. I want to help.” In 2017, SPIC Sichuan Company and Shanghai Electric Power 6 o’clock in the morning, and started to work More and more villagers came upon hearing Industry School jointly recruited job-directed students in Sichuan at villager’s home at 7 o’clock. They sorted the news, some carrying shoulder pole, some Province to train skilled personnel in secondary vocational school. out the data at noon and continued to collect carrying bedding, some carrying rope, some SPIC and school leaders led a delegation to Sichuan for investigation, data at villager’s home at 6 pm. In the next few carrying thermos bottle ... after twists and and identified such poor areas as Aba, Ganzi, and Liangshan as key days, they got up early and slept late to collect turns, Xia Chenxing was rushed to the hospital sources of job-directed students. Through visits and investigations, and sort out villager data. They often worked and out of danger. 15 students were finally admitted after face-to-face communication with students and parents. Afterwards, someone asked Brother Xia “do you regret choosing to go to Jinman Village Considering that most of the 15 students are ethnic minorities, SPIC to help the poor?” Brother Xia cheerfully said: and the school have given them meticulous care in the aspects of “although the work in the village is very bitter entrance education, study and school life. They have helped students and tiring, when seeing the great changes in understand the curriculum arrangement, become familiar with Jinman Village and the gradual improvement campus life, and increase their chances of contact and exchange of the living and production conditions of poor with the society. They have organized the students to participate households, I think it is worthwhile to work in large-scale volunteering activities carried out by the school and harder. This will be a valuable asset in my brought them to participate in activities such as China International life.” Industry Fair. They have striven to cultivate the students into qualified laborers who meet the social demands and play their roles in building Military training before admission to school their hometown. Article source: www.xinhuanet.com 结对帮扶卡

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Important achievements of I heard that the first secretary from Beijing is leaving SPIC’s employment training activities

Liu Weili “This is a good time. Secretary Liu Weili came to Shijia aged and cannot ensure normal production. Liu Village to build roads and dams for us, and to build Weili worked hard to raise funds and carried out and rebuild greenhouses for us...” a song adapted by a renovation project of greenhouses in the village, the villagers of Shijia Village expresses the villagers’ transforming the old-fashioned greenhouses into Seconded SPIC cadre admiration and love for Liu Weili, a seconded SPIC new sunlight greenhouses. The first batch of 100 as the first secretary of cadre as the first secretary in Shijia Village. greenhouses has been renovated with an investment village party branch, Shijia of more than 6 million yuan. Shaanxi Yanchuan County Hebei Fengning County Guizhou Nayong County On July 28, 2015, Liu Weili, a 28-year-old man from Village, Guanzhuang Town, Beijing, was selected as an outstanding SPIC cadre The renovated greenhouses are not only neat and Yanchuan County, Shaanxi to be the first secretary of village party branch, Shijia beautiful, but also greatly increase the income of SPIC SNPTC, together with the science Dongfang Energy (Hebei Company) SPIC Guizhou Jinyuan has built a Province Village, Guanzhuang Town, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi villagers. “Before the renovation of my greenhouse, and technology bureau and the poverty organized 120 people to participate training center in Madian Village, Province. the annual income from planting was about 10,000 alleviation office of Yanchuan county in skills training, and organized 30 Nayong County, to raise the poverty- yuan. After the renovation, the income from the first government, organized four training people to participate in skills training stricken people’s awareness of poverty When he first arrived in Yanchuan, he was arranged crop of melons alone has reached more than 20,000 sessions on farmers’ planting and on entrepreneurship, maternity matron, alleviation, wealth enrichment, improve to live in a cave dwelling of the township government. This was both his office and his residence. There yuan.” Liu Yongjun, a villager from Shijia Village who animal husbandry skills, training more animal husbandry, so as to ensure their cultural attainments, life knowledge was no toilet or TV in the cave dwelling. He had to go participated in the renovation of the first batch of than 800 farmers and enhancing the that at least one labor force from a and working skills, benefiting more than outside to go to the toilet. There was a lack of water in greenhouses, said excitedly, “I gave our first secretary self-development ability of the poor poor household masters 1-2 practical 6,000 people. the village, and there was even no sufficient water for Liu Weili the first melon produced in my greenhouse population. technologies for getting rich. washing faces every day, let alone bathing. “Before as a gift.” I came to the village, I was ready to take root here. If these difficulties cannot be overcome, how can I lead Liu Weili is always especially concerned about poor the masses out of poverty and get rich?” Liu Weili said households in the village. Liu Xinan, 45 years old, to the reporter with a smile. Within two months, he had spent out all his family’s savings because his wife completely adapted to life here. suffered from severe mental illness a few years ago. Originally working outside, he had to go back to the “He is from a big city and just 20 years old. Is he village to take care of his wife. There was no source qualified to be the first secretary?” On the second day after he came to the village, Liu Weili started his work of income in his family. The heavy burden fell on Liu immediately. He visited the villagers to find out the Xinan. Whenever he mentioned his wife and children who could not afford tuition, he choked up. Therefore, Training session on animal husbandry Watch beekeeping educational films Cultural activity center project in Madian situation of each household and the public opinions of Liu Weili insisted on visiting Liu Xinan at regular and forage grass planting skills Village the villagers. intervals to encourage him to build up confidence in “There are 1012 people from 343 households in Shijia life. Village, in which 100 people from 33 households live in poverty, and there are 36 Party members in In order to solve Liu Xinan’s economic difficulty and Shijia Village. Farmers’ income mainly depends on improve his ability to earn money, Liu Weili invited Yunnan Lushui County Sichuan Meigu County and Xide County Henan Shangcheng County greenhouse planting …” After thorough investigations experts from the county vegetable station to provide and visits, Liu Weili put forward a targeted poverty Liu Xinan with technical guidance. After six months of alleviation work plan for Shijia Village, which won the unremitting efforts, Liu Xinan finally got his first income Of the 583 people from 153 poor SPIC Sichuan Company makes full Relying on the talent college of the unanimous recognition and support of villagers. after the first watermelon harvest. households aided by SPIC Yunnan use of the talent college of the group group company, SPIC Henan Company International, 98 people participated company, invests 300,000 to 400,000 organized the e-commerce training Over 80 % of the greenhouses in Shijia Village were in the skills training in Nujiang yuan per year to hold the annual in Shangcheng County, with a total of Autonomous Prefecture and more than training session for grassroots poverty more than 160 people participating in 100 people went out to work, getting rid alleviation cadres. It has been held the training. of poverty and becoming rich. for four consecutive years and has trained 130 local cadres and backbone personnel.

Organizing the tertiary industry training Meigu county cadre training session Providing e-commerce training Article source: Yan’an Daily

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Grassroots cadre education Our Practice Promoting targeted poverty alleviation through “four Grassroots cadres are bridges to the masses and the backbone forces for poverty alleviation. SPIC has actively increased efforts to train and educate grassroots cadres in poor areas, and made full use of the training advantages of the talent college of its leadings” subsidiary company. Since 2010, it has organized 18 training sessions participated by nearly 800 management personnel from Every Monday, Hebei Company’s Liu Hongbin hurried and establishes a mechanism for those getting rich Guinan County, Meigu County and Shangcheng County, allowing them to broaden their thinking horizon, update their knowledge, Liu Hongbin to work. As the head of the working group on targeted first to help people still in poverty. enhance their ability to perform their duties, and lead people to get rid of poverty and get rich. poverty alleviation in Laomiaoying Village of Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, he must get back to the It takes the lead in showing the identity of party Seconded SPIC cadre village as soon as possible. “As the first secretary in members. The working group in the village guides the as the First Secretary the village, I must lead by example.” said Liu Hongbin. five party members in the village to show their identity in Laomiaoying Village, Since assuming office in the village on February 26, of party member, as well as their duties and promises, Fengning Manchu and selects the advanced individuals in leading ch 2016, the working group has carried out the “four Important a ievements of Autonomous County, Hebei leadings” campaign to implement poverty alleviation, common prosperity, advanced individuals in getting SPIC’s cadre education activities Province wining the praise of the common people. rich and advanced individuals in leading people to get rich. 26 party members in the village were organized It takes the lead in building up the brand of party organization. The working group insists on to help 107 poor households in the village and to drive strengthening party building to promote poverty villagers to donate 20,000 yuan for the poor. Through alleviation, carrying out standardized construction coordination, the village communist party branch of village branch offices, standardizing archives, committee and the villagers’ autonomy committee Ningxia Subao Village Liaoning Sijiaban Village improving learning records, buying learning books, have solved the payment of compensation for railway and urging the implementation of the basic systems land occupation that has not been settled for many such as “three meetings and one class”. To lead by years, and carried out low-voltage rectification of the SPIC Aluminum & Power Company invested funds to Starting with party building for poverty alleviation, SPIC example, the first secretary Liu Hongbin takes the improve the village party branch offices and to support Northeast Company assists the village party branch lead in reading the original works and learning from power supply lines to improve the safety and reliability the promulgation of several village regulations and in carrying out the normalized and institutionalized the original texts. The establishment of the Wechat of residents’ electricity consumption. rules. The achievements have passed the inspections learning and education on “studies on the theoretical discussion group for village party building has of the government at three levels (Ningxia Autonomous and practical issues of party building “, promotes the solved the difficulty of centralized learning caused by It takes the lead in bringing together social support Region, Guyuan City, Jingyuan County) and received standardized operation of village organizations, and scattered locations of discussion group members. At forces. The working group has carefully formulated the the same time, they also send books and give lectures high praise. improves the remote party building education platform, “three-year overall development plan and the annual to party members working outside of the village. party member activity room, and reading room. aid plan for Laomiaoying Village”, and improved It takes the lead in building party branches on the the poverty alleviation work plan for the “13th five- industrial chain. Laomiaoying Village has a beekeeping year plan” period, to give full play to the advantages tradition, but it has been on a small scale for a long of the energy industry, to vigorously promote the time. After an in-depth investigation, the working group targeted poverty alleviation, and to ensure the decided to establish a temporary party branch in Xiao goals are achieved as scheduled. The fund-raising Sun Beekeeping Cooperative to guide the three party campaign “supporting development and meeting members to be pioneers in getting rich. Guiding party expectations” was launched to respond to the call members in the industrial chain to pair up with the poor people has achieved remarkable results in making that poverty alleviation requires a change of attitude. the poor richer. The working group has also visited 16 outstanding cadres of government agencies are households for conversations and planned to apply for selected to pair up with 294 poor households, helping Organizing the tertiary industry training Improving party-building facilities 36 poverty alleviation projects in leading industries. It them get rid of poverty and get rich. actively coordinates with the large farming households in the village, attracts poor households to take shares,

Shaanxi Yanchuan County

SPIC SNPTC has organized training sessions on Party member conduct and Party disciplines for party branch secretaries at the grassroots for two consecutive years, and organized the first training session for communist youth league cadres, to strengthen the interaction between SPIC communist party members / communist youth league members and poverty alleviation areas, so that the revolutionary spirit of the old liberated areas can be passed on to SPIC communist party members and communist youth league members. Strengthening the construction of Party organizations Article source: Hebei Daily

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Strengthen organizational leadership and Firmly implement targeted poverty Improve capital management and strengthen strengthen institutional mechanisms. alleviation and form endogenous driving working style construction. force. SPIC further increases its efforts to improve SPIC adheres to the problem–oriented “This is a society to be enjoyed by each and every the leadership over poverty alleviation work, The poor people are not only the target of approach, strengthens transparent supervision one of us; on the march toward common prosperity, earnestly implements the group company’s poverty alleviation, but also the main force for over poverty alleviation, has zero tolerance no one must be left behind.” Shouldering the “13th five-year plan” for targeted poverty poverty alleviation and wealth enrichment. SPIC for corruption, ensures that poverty alleviation historical responsibility of overcoming poverty, SPIC alleviation and twinning assistance, clarifies implements targeted policies, does a good job investment is in line with the goal and task has always stayed true to the mission of “developing the timetable and road map for the three- in poverty alleviation through industrial projects, of poverty alleviation, and concentrates on power industry for the people” and considered year battle against poverty, and works with people’s livelihood projects, and educational finding and solving outstanding problems people’s yearning for a better life and the national local party committees and governments support. It does a good job in the training of such as weak “four consciousnesses” of vision of building a well-off society in an all-round and relevant authorities to promote poverty poverty alleviation cadres at all levels, pays poverty alleviation, inadequate fulfillment way as its untiring goals. alleviation work, so as to ensure that personnel particular attention to helping people increase of responsibilities, nonstandard use and are in place, responsibilities are assigned to confidence in their own ability to lift themselves management of funds, and improper working individuals, work is properly done, and tangible out of poverty, and stimulates the enthusiasm style. results are achieved. and initiative of the poor people.

“By accumulating earth you can create a mountain; by accumulating water you can make a sea.” The 19th CPC National Congress required us to firmly win the battle against poverty. In the decisive period of building a well-off society in an all-round way, SPIC will bravely carry out its mission with a pragmatic working style and solid initiatives, and create a new situation of targeted poverty alleviation with wisdom and hard work. With the pursuit of unchanged initial thoughts and the concern for poor people, we have gathered into a solid force to win the battle against poverty.

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