Gathering Philanthropic Forces to Promote Chinese Path to Modernization -- Written at the Opening of the 10th CCF
发表日期:2023-09-15 20:00:00

The best time of the year you must remember is the end of autumn and the beginning of winter.

September in Autumn is a month belonging to Chinese charity.

On September 15th, Shenzhen, a city of love, charity and volunteers, welcomed the 10th CCF.

Jointly building modern charity and promoting high-quality development.

Focusing on the exchange of charity achievements, the docking of charity resources, the dissemination of charity culture, and the collaboration of charity ecology, the 10th CCF focuses on promoting the integration and mutual promotion of charity and high-quality economic and social development.

Climbing up high and viewing the magnificent of the heaven and earth.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the public welfare and philanthropic undertakings in China have been developing vigorously, and have made remarkable achievements in system construction, scale and quality, and social participation, and have vigorously served the country's economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihood.

The holding of ten sessions of CCF highlights the exploration and achievements of Shenzhen's innovative development of philanthropy, which is not only a full demonstration of the achievements of China's philanthropy development, but also an effective innovation of China's philanthropy culture dissemination, and also a vivid interpretation of its active service to national strategies, promoting common prosperity, and advancing Chinese path to modernization.

 

"Charity sample ", as the "passeur"for promoting common prosperity.

Charity is an important symbol of social civilization and progress.

The public welfare charity led by the Party is an important component of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and an important force in promoting common prosperity and promoting social equity.

Common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese path to modernization.

It is necessary to fully leverage the third distribution role of charity into the national strategic deployment of solidly promoting common prosperity.

Since the new era, the Party and the state have attached unprecedented importance to charity.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

The CCF is a national level exhibition that was originated, established, and permanently settled in Shenzhen. Since its first session in 2012, it has innovatively introduced exhibition forms into the public welfare charity industry, thus successfully opening up a new path for the development of charity that is open, shared, and win-win cooperation. The successful nine sessions of CCF have covered 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions, attracting 10,663 institutions to participate and facilitating 2,620 project docking, with a docking amount of over 70.1 billion yuan. More than 1,600 public welfare and charitable activities were held, with nearly 1.3 million people attending.

Over the past decade, the CCF has fully leveraged the influence of national industry events, extensively gathered various charitable forces, actively participated in serving national strategies, and made charitable contributions in winning the battle against poverty, building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, supporting people's livelihood guarantee and social welfare undertakings, and promoting common prosperity.

Over the past decade, the CCF has flourished and blossomed in openness, innovation, and low-carbon exhibitions. From Shenzhen to the whole country and even from Shenzhen to the world, it has not only become an important platform for showcasing China's charitable development achievements, promoting modern charitable concepts, and advancing the integration of charitable resources, but also effectively showcasing China's role as a major country in world issues such as poverty reduction and sustainable development, and promoting international exchanges in charitable causes, thus becoming an important window for the international community to observe China's charity, understand China's temperature, and acknowledge China's development.

The 10th CCF is the first session held after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with significant significance and far-reaching influence.

It takes General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on public welfare and charitable undertakings and the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress as the guidance, and has adhered to the people-centered approach and implemented the charity law in depth. The CCF will continue to write more "spring stories" in each session, and will serve as a good "passeur" for the people's aspirations for a better life in the successive struggles.

A "Demonstration Platform", a Pioneer in Promoting the High Quality Development of Charity.

It is necessary to guide and support willing and capable enterprises, social organizations, and individuals to actively participate in public welfare and charitable causes.

The important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping in the report of the 20th Party Congress provide a fundamental guideline for the high-quality development of philanthropy in the new era, and for promoting philanthropy to play a better role in the new journey of building a socialist modernized country in an all-round way.

To promote the high-quality development of philanthropy, it is required to find the correct functional positioning in the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation, and play its role in the process of integrating into Chinese path to modernization.

The 10th CCF focuses on the theme of high-quality development and the cohesion of people's well-being. By setting up a special "Tech for Social Good" exhibition area, holding a series of themed activities such as the  Innovation Case Press Conference of Tech for Social Good and the Application Scenario Observation and Experience Conference of Tech for Social Good, it is committed to building itself into a "demonstration platform" to accelerate the high-quality development of Chinese characteristic philanthropy, and to unite charitable efforts for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country.

Efforts should be made to promote digital charity, promote the standardized and efficient operation of various charitable organizations, establish and improve emergency charity coordination mechanisms, improve laws, regulations, and policy measures, and enrich charitable participation methods... Only through reform and innovation can charitable undertakings develop in a high-quality manner.

In 1997, the first local charity regulation in China was introduced - the "Regulations on the Management of Donations to Public Welfare Undertakings in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone". In 2010, the first private public foundation was registered and established in China. In 2012, the first CCF was held, and in 2015, the "Tencent 99 Public Welfare Day" was created to create a nationwide charity brand. In 2016, the "China Ping An Education Development Charity Trust Plan", the first charity trust in China, was established. In 2020, policy documents such as the "Shenzhen Action Plan for Promoting the High Quality Development of Philanthropy (2020-2025)" were issued, and technology was empowered to accelerate the construction of a cross-border, integrated, and multi-dimensional charity ecosystem. The charity industry in Shenzhen has taken the lead in innovative development, continuously optimized the policy environment, innovated institutional mechanisms, and initially formed a modern charity ecosystem with sound systems, law-based improvement, obvious effects, and a healthy and orderly system, so as to advance the high-quality development of charity and create a highland for innovative development of charity in Shenzhen.

The exhibition in this year has come to a successful end and has gained fame for consecutive eleven years.

Extending from showcasing and exchanging charity projects to focusing on the development of the people's livelihood service industry, the summary of ten sessions of CCF is taken as an opportunity to launch a series of plans such as building ten themed exhibition areas, so as to create a comprehensive exhibition that integrates charity projects, social service products, and technological innovation application scenarios. This year, the 10th CCF will comprehensively enhance the brand influence and coverage of the charity exhibition, create a good social atmosphere for the high-quality development of charity, and do a good job in leading demonstrations.

'One Exhibition of Diversity', a Pioneer in Jointly Building Modern Philanthropy

Helping each other and assisting those in need, are traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

Optimizing the social assistance and charity system.

To develop charity in the new era, it is required to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, and promote charity to play a better role in helping the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

To jointly build modern charity, it is necessary to inherit and carry forward the connotation of Chinese charity culture, accelerate the cultivation of modern charity culture, and form a good trend of "everyone cherishes charity, everyone participates in charity" in the whole society.

Under the guidance of building a low-carbon exhibition and an international event with digital transformation, the 10th CCF is striving to create a benchmark for the new era of charity exhibitions.

Regarding compassion as the foundation, and carrying out good deeds to serve the people.

The 10th CCF has specially build two pavilions: the Charity High Quality Development Achievement Pavilion and the Good Life Experience Pavilion, set up 10 sub venues in the city, launched the "1+10+N" conference system, guided more professional institutions in the industry to participate in topic co-creation, further expanded the philanthropic field of technological innovation application through brand projects, and continued to hold brand projects such as China Charity Image Festival and TIFP New Power for Public Welfare Program, telling a good story about charity in China……It focuses on building a platform of "one exhibition of diversity", and showing people's livelihood services with "temperature", conferences and seminars with "thickness", resources link with "precision", and supporting activities with "breadth". Taking this as an opportunity, Shenzhen fully leverages the advantages of charity organizations, effectively mobilizes more charity resources, tries to build a new pattern of charity development, and enables Chinese path to modernization construction with modern charity.

The firewood is passed down and full of vitality.

In the 45 years since the reform and opening up, Shenzhen has emerged a group of caring individuals, caring enterprises, and public welfare institutions who are willing to contribute and actively participate in charitable causes.

It is precisely this land that has nurtured important platforms such as the China Charity Fair, so as to inject infinite momentum into the high-quality development and modern charity construction of Shenzhen in the new era, and inspire strong cohesion and centripetal force towards goodness.

Everything in life must be done by yourself, and even if every time only taking half a step, with long-term accumulation, you can enter a broad world.

A new era, a new journey. Taking the CCF as a platform and high-quality development as a guidance, Shenzhen will accelerate the joint construction of modern philanthropy, which will surely bring together the magnificent philanthropy force, produce a magnificent philanthropic symphony, and pour out endless philanthropic sources, thus contributing to the new era of philanthropy to promote common prosperity and advance Chinese path to modernization!