[Beijing Evening News]Evergrande’s Hui Ka Yan Wins China Charity Award for the Sixth Time, Who Ranks in Forbes as China’s First Philanthropist
Date:2013.04.21 Publisher:Beijing Evening News
On April 19, the highest government award in China’s
charity - the eighth “China Charity Award”, which was sponsored by the Ministry
of Civil Affairs, solemnly announced the winners in the Great Hall of People in
Beijing , and the compassion public, organizations and charity projects across
the country won the award, Hui Ka Yan, member of CPPCC Standing Committee and
chairman of Evergrande Group, was one of the representatives.
In the morning of that day, Li Liguo, the minister of the
Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Meng Jianmin, the vice director of State-owned
Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, met with
the winners and presented the awards at the ceremony. As a well-known entrepreneur and
philanthropist, Hui Ka Yan won the award of “The Most Caring Charity Donator of
China Charity Award” for the sixth time, and became the caring people with the
most personal awards since its inception.
“China Charity Award” was established in 2006 and has
been successfully held for eight times. The award aims to compliment disaster relief,
helping the old, the disabled, orphans, the poor and needy, students and
medical help, and support arts and culture, environmental protection and other
charitable spirit. After many times of screening and rigorous selection, Hui
Ka Yan, member of CPPCC Standing Committee and chairman of Evergrande Group,
stood out from thousands of applicants
and successfully won the important award of “The Most Caring Charity Donator”.
The reporter learned that, as a member of the Standing Committee of CPPCC and also the most outstanding private entrepreneur in China, Hui Ka Yan not only vigorously join the charity himself, but also repeatedly called for more businesses and individuals to join the charity on important occasions.In the 17 years of entrepreneurship, Hui Ka Yan has devoted himself to various
social charities, advocating and actively participating
in them and sparing no effort to vigorous donation and sacrifice of love, which
makes him deserve for the honor.
In the same day of the eighth “China Charity Award”, the
Chinese version of the famous American business and financial magazine- “Forbes”,
released the China Charity List in high-profile for the eighth time, and Hui Ka
Yan, chairman of Evergrande Group, was put in the list and once again won the
honor of China's first philanthropist by Forbes.
As the list shows, Hui Ka Yan-the head of Evergrande, Ren
Yuanlin of Yangtze River Shipbuilding Company, Wang Jianlin of Wanda Group
ranked the top three among the 100 entrepreneurs (business) in the list. As for the direction
of donation, the donation of Hui Ka Yan-China’s first philanthropist, was
directed mainly to education, sports, entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation and
disaster relief and other areas closely related to the people's livelihood and
social, cultural and sports career, which fully reflects the strong patriotic
enthusiasm and sense of ownership of Chinese Charity entrepreneurs in
personally solving domestic social problems and sparing no effort to revitalize
the prosperity of Chinese culture and sports.
In March this year, through a very strict political
censorship and screening, Hui Ka Yan, as a private entrepreneur from the
Communist Party, was overwhelmingly elected into the 12th Standing Committee of
CPPCC, who was the only one from economic circles. And his wonderful speech on “To stimulate
enthusiasm of enterprises to promote the development of charity” in the General
Assembly was reverberated and widely praised in the charity sector and business
community.
Insiders pointed out that the representatives of private
entrepreneurs in China(represented by Hui Ka Yan) are extremely excellent in
politics and actively participate and make outstanding contributions in
improving the mechanism of charitable relief.As a member of Standing Committee,
Hui Ka Yan is sure to bear more social responsibilities and make more
contributions to the construction of socialist harmonious society and the
promotion of social prosperity.