Under the guidance of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), the launch of Central State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book (2019) and collective release of CSR reports of the central SOEs was held by China Social Responsibility 100 Forum in Beijing on the afternoon of August 29. More than 280 guests from 96 central SOEs, local state-owned assets administrations and SOEs, and mainstream media attended the ceremony.

China Qiyuan Engineering Corporation (CQEC) unveiled a research center for the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) on August 20. Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer Liao Ming and Deputy General Manager Ren Xingfu attended and addressed the opening ceremony.

The 11th Shanghai Water Hotspot Forum 2019, jointly organized by Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Chengtou Wastewater Treatment Co., Ltd. and E20 Environment Platform, was recently held in Shanghai. China Energy Conservation and Environment Protection Group (CECEP) Zhaosheng Environment Protection Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of wastewater treatment equipment, attended the forum upon invitation.

On July 18, 2019, China International Contractors Association released the rating for businesses engaging in international engineering projects of 2019. China Geo-Engineering Corporation (CGC) was rated an A-level company, the highest in the classification system.

The poverty relief team of Jiangxi Company has held training sessions in Nanshan Village, Jiangxi Province. With the sessions, the team members and volunteers coached children at the age of compulsory education from poor families in Chinese, math and English for free.

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

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

The fourth China National Quality Innovation Contest wrapped up in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on July 25. The research project of Quality Management Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Management Items Structural Analysis on the Production Drawing Design for Power Generation Projects through Refuse Incineration by China Environmental Protection (CEP) Group was recognized as the III-grade technological achievement in the Quality Innovation Contest.