Since the 18th Party Congress, under the high priority and strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, China's charity has taken a new step in terms of institutional construction, scale and quality, and social participation, and has made remarkable achievements in serving the country and society.

In the past ten years, China's charity development has emerged many milestone events. These events are not only a vivid reflection of the vigorous development of charity, but also promote the continuous growth of charity.

The China Charity Project Exchange and Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as the "Charity Exhibition") is one of them.

The first Charity Fair was started in 2012 and co-organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Shenzhen Municipal Government.

With ten years of hard work and diligent watering by many parties, the Fair has taken root and grown; ten years of journey, the Fair has become one of the three major exhibitions in Shenzhen and a charity industry event with global radiation and national influence.

In these ten years, the exhibition has fully demonstrated the development achievements of China's charity, served and docked over 70 billion yuan of charity resources, spread and popularized charity culture, and become a window to read China's charity and understand China's development.

In these ten years, the Fair has taken up its mission and actively participated in serving the national strategy, connecting nearly 34 billion yuan of resources around poverty eradication and over 3.7 billion yuan of intended matchmaking around rural revitalization, gathering the majestic power of all walks of life to overcome poverty and promote revitalization.

In these ten years, the exhibition has adhered to the gene of reform, openness, innovation and pragmatism, and written many "firsts" in the public welfare and charity industry, such as the first trial "carbon neutral" green exhibition, the first CSR seminar, the first public welfare bazaar, etc., and thus has gone nationwide and driven the innovative development of the whole charity industry. This has led to the innovative development of the whole charity industry.

In these ten years, the exhibition has gradually become internationalized and promoted the excellent projects of international charitable organizations, showcased China's role as a great nation in world issues such as poverty alleviation and sustainable development, and promoted international exchanges in the charity industry through global exhibition promotion activities and international seminars on the theme of public welfare.

Ten years of success, ten years of success. The success of the exhibition is a reflection of the soil for the continuous development and growth of charity in China, the importance attached to charity and its important role by the Party committees and governments at all levels, and the boldness of Shenzhen, the city of reform and opening up, in promoting the development of charity.

Over the past ten years, the reform and innovation of charity in Shenzhen has been a big step forward, did not stop. In 1997, Shenzhen introduced the first local charity regulations "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Donation Public Welfare Management Regulations", in 2010, the registration of the establishment of the first domestic private public foundation, based on the creation of the exhibition industry into the field of charity charity exhibition, to create a national charity brand Tencent "99 Public Welfare Day", the establishment of the The first charity trust in China ...... is a series of innovative initiatives, with benchmarking and leading significance in the country, contributing to the development of philanthropy and the wisdom and strength of Shenzhen.

To advance a new journey, set sail again. The 20th Party Congress issued a mobilization order for the comprehensive construction of a modernized socialist country and the united struggle to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. As a pioneer demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Shenzhen is looking forward to making a new and greater contribution to the high-quality development of charity with Chinese characteristics and the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country with a spirit of forging ahead and never slacking off, and with a stance of daring to break new ground and work forward.

(Source: "China Civil Affairs")