In 2017, Caterpillar implemented the new enterprise strategy and set the company's goal, that is, our solution to help customers build a better world. Caterpillar will continue to promote the implementation of a series of projects through Caterpillar foundation in China and implement Caterpillar's sustainable development behavior values.
In May 14th, the Caterpillar foundation announced the 2018 China public welfare project, which will support 11 projects in the field of poverty relief and disaster relief, supporting basic human needs, educational poverty alleviation and ecological poverty alleviation. The total amount of the project will be over 10 million RMB.
In 2018, the projects supported by the foundation included rural campus safe drinking water projects, rural old housing renovation projects, small rural centralized water supply projects, and rural school love kitchen projects. These projects will provide health facilities for rural schools, such as drinking water and hand washing pools, and provide health and health training for rural low-income families with more safe and livable homes, and to provide clean and safe drinking and living water for the water shortage rural areas.
The love kitchen project will also provide thousands of teachers and students with millions of safe and nutritious meals. It is expected that nearly 10000 villagers and teachers and students will benefit directly from the above projects. In the campus safe drinking water and rural dilapidated housing reconstruction project, the relevant school and family's toilet renovation will be the focus of work.
In 2018, the foundation will continue to inject capital into the "disaster preparedness and mitigation fund" which is working with China's poverty alleviation fund. At present, it has injected more than 6 million yuan into the fund. The fund is used to distribute family emergency support boxes and rescue tents for natural disasters such as floods, wind disasters, earthquakes, hail and other natural disasters, providing emergency safety education for children left behind in mountain areas, providing emergency rescue skills training for volunteers, and strengthening community disaster awareness and capacity-building.
In the field of environmental protection, the foundation will support the mother river restoration project. According to one of the sources of water supply in Beijing, the problem of the direct drainage of rural sewage in the tidal river basin of Fengning, Hebei, the comprehensive treatment system of artificial wetland sewage is built to improve the local ecological environment and improve the water environment quality of the Chao River Basin. In 2018, there were about ten thousand trees planted in the Caterpillar Foundation's public welfare forest project, which benefited more than ten thousand residents from tree planting areas.
Pay attention to the field of education for low-income families and non dominant teenagers. In 2018, the foundation will continue to support the mobile child education support program, the youth empowerment project for vocational schools and low-income families, the 100 year vocational training program, and the basic literacy and numeracy projects in the Pengcheng special education school in Xuzhou, to provide support for non dominant children and adolescents to help them better. Learn and integrate into society.
The Caterpillar foundation has been actively involved in China's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction undertakings by supporting projects that meet the basic needs of human beings, such as water, food, shelter, energy and disaster relief, support non dominant adolescents and children's education, and support the improvement of the natural environment and help the poor to seek economic development and education more effectively. Meeting. Since 2014, the Caterpillar foundation has benefited about 300000 Chinese projects.
Mr. Chen Qihua, Caterpillar's global vice president and chairman of Caterpillar (China) Investment Co., Ltd., said: "promoting the sustainable development of the community is an important embodiment of the concept of" corporate citizenship "and the responsibility of" corporate citizens "by Caterpillar. It is an important part of the enterprise development strategy. The Caterpillar foundation will work together with Caterpillar to contribute to the city and the Chinese economy and society in the two areas of basic human needs and social infrastructure to better achieve the long-term commitment of Caterpillar to China's sustainable development. "
