As the only national, comprehensive and international charity event in China, the China Charity Fair has been successfully held for seven years and has become an important carrier to promote the development of social construction and charity innovation. On May 20, the Cloud Launching Ceremony of the 8th China Charity Fair was held online, which is in the form of live broadcast. The Launching Ceremony introduces the highlights and preparations of the 8th China Charity Fair and has launched the important sections and activities such as the 8th China Charity Fair Exhibition, Contests and China International Philanthropic Movie Festival. According to the introduction, the 8th China Charity Fair will be held in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from September 18 to 20, for a period of 3 days.

At present, the preparatory work of the fair is progressing in an orderly manner and all the sections such as Exhibition, Meeting and Contests. All sectors of the society can sign up for the fair via the Official Website of China Charity Fair (ttp://www.cncf.org.cn/).

Huang Min, Deputy Director and Office Director of the Organizing Committee of the Charity Fair and Deputy Mayor of Shenzhen; Liao Yuanfei, Deputy Office Director of the Organizing Committee and Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs; Wang Chuhong, Deputy Office Director of the Organizing Committee, Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee; Wu Yuanxiang, Member of the Organizing Committee Office and Deputy Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, Huamin Charity Foundation, Guangdong Guoqiang Foundation, China Construction Bank Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen Charity Federation, Shenzhen Welfare Lottery Distribution Center and other representatives of co-organizers of the fair, as well as enterprises, social organizations, media and other industry representatives have attended the meeting.

At the meeting, in order to thank the co-organizers for their strong support and help, Huang Min, Deputy Director and Office Director of the Organizing Committee of the Charity Fair and Deputy Mayor of Shenzhen, licensed the representative of the co-organizers of the 8th China Charity Fair, and jointly initiated the registration work of the 8th China Charity Fair with Liao Yuanfei, Deputy Office Director of the Organizing Committee and Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs; Wang Chuhong, Deputy Office Director of the Organizing Committee, Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee; WU Yuanxiang, Member of the Organizing Committee Office and Deputy Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, and representatives of the co-organizers of the 8th China Charity Fair.

At the meeting, Wu Yuanxiang, Member of the Organizing Committee Office and Deputy Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, announced the features and overall arrangement of the 8th China Charity Fair. This year is the year when China's goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is realized, and it is also the closing year of winning the battle against poverty. According to the introduction, the 8th China Charity Fair will take “Focus on Poverty Alleviation and Create a Better Life” as the theme, guide and gather the strength of social power of charity with greater strength and more practical measures to help win the battle.

In the area of presentation and communication

The fair will set up three major fair halls: the poverty alleviation achievement hall, the consumption poverty alleviation product hall, and the better life experience hall. All efforts are made to make the poverty alleviation closing results fair and charity power joint fair.

In the area of seminars

The fair innovates the "TIFP Public Welfare New Power Plan", forming a diversified conference system with theme summit leaded value orientation, sub topic seminars to carry out in-depth theoretical and practical discussion, community round table group to share practical skills, and closed door meeting to summarize and refine the results, so as to create a gathering platform of advanced ideas, cutting-edge wisdom and innovation mode of public welfare charity, and promote the in-depth communication and integration of diversified communities.

In the area of resource docking

The fair’s operation mode of "two-step” online and offline resource docking is improved, and a multi-component resource docking platform covering project display, product promotion, public welfare shared space, industry empowerment support, industry think tank and so on is established, so as to guide the social poverty alleviation resources to the decisive battle place.

At the same time, in order to further strengthen the industry linkage and build a cooperative platform of philanthropic ecology, the "All Star Plan" of China Charity Fair came into being. At the launching ceremony of the registration, the list of partners of the "All Star Plan" was officially announced in order to clear the blockage of the impact of the epidemic, grasp the key point of public welfare development, and work together to build a new ecology of the charity industry.

At the same time, together with nearly two hundred organizations, the China Charity Fair has jointly launched the Initiative of "Winning the Battle against Poverty, Striving for a Well-off Society in an All-round Way-2020 Charities' Decisive Battle against Poverty Alleviation". At the meeting, industry representatives from enterprises and social organizations, such as China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, Country Garden Holdings, Benlai.com, Shenzhen Non-Governmental Organization Federation, Shenzhen Charity Alliance, Shenzhen Commonweal Fund Federation, jointly read out the proposal.

On that day, elites of charity gathered.

Experts and scholars of Lu Dezhi, Vice President of China Charity Alliance, Chairman of Huamin Charity Foundation and Director of Development Center of Shenzhen China Charity Fair; Tang Min, Counselor of the State Council, Vice Chairman of Youcheng China Social Entrepreneur Foundation and Honorary Director of Development Center of Shenzhen China Charity Fair; Wang Kai, Assistant to Co-Chairman of BGI and Deputy Secretary-General of Shenzhen Mammoth Foundation and Zhou Runan, an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University's School of Communication and Design, focused on the topic of "how to promote the coordinated development of public welfare and economic society in the post epidemic period”, and conducted keynote speeches, case sharing and round table meetings to explore how charity forces can carry out front-end design, intervention and interference in the face of social problems such as public health emergencies, share the experience mode of charity power in economic development, and promote the coordinated development of public interest and economic society.

The China Charity Fair is another national major fair held in Shenzhen after the China Hi-tech Fair and China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair. Since its establishment in 2012, the fair has made active exploration in helping fight poverty and promoting the innovation and development of philanthropy.

According to statistics, the seven Charity Fairs have covered 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, attracting 9,064 institutions to participate in the fair, holding more than 1,400 kinds of public charity activities, nearly 1.19 million people patronized the fair, and 2,367 docking projects with a docking amount of 52.9 billion yuan. It has cultivated a large number of charitable organizations, public welfare projects and public welfare talents, showing the achievements of charity development in China. It has played a positive role in promoting the docking of charity resources.