Overseas Chinese businessmen donated more than 70 million for charity, Ningbo "Overseas Chinese Power" resonates with urban development at the same frequency
China News Service, Ningbo, January 1 (Reporter Lin Bo) On January 1, the reporter learned from the Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Zhejiang Province that since 2020, more than 100 overseas Chinese businessmen from the Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce have donated more than 7,000 public welfare undertakings. Ten thousand yuan (RMB, the same below), of which Ye Taihai, the permanent honorary president and his son Ye Junhuai, donated 13 million yuan to Ningbo University and Ningbo Institute of Technology.
Ningbo is one of China's key hometowns of overseas Chinese, and the "Ningbo Gang" is an important force in China's reform, opening up and modernization drive. It is known for being patriotic and loving the country and enthusiastic about serving Sangzi.
Looking back on 2020, after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce issued the "Proposal" as soon as possible, calling on all members to donate money and materials. On January 26, 2020, the Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce delivered the first batch of anti-epidemic materials to the city. Medical and public security frontline.
From the original Spring Festival holiday mode to the anti-epidemic action mode, at that time, Xu Xuchang, chairman of the Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, quickly adjusted to working status and called on "overseas Chinese forces" to jointly help the frontline fight the epidemic.
Today, 2020 has come to an end, and Xu Xuchang still vividly remembers the past.
At the Fourth Member Congress of the Sixth Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce on December 31, 2020 and the "Anti-epidemic Pioneer" commendation event, Xu Xuchang said, "This is the memory of our overseas Chinese businessmen who have worked together to fight the epidemic. To fight, to dedicate the love and strength of the overseas Chinese community at home and abroad."
According to incomplete statistics, during the 2020 epidemic, Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce mobilized more than 160 member companies and overseas organizations such as Japan, South Korea, and Turkey to donate 36 million yuan to Wuhan, Ningbo and other places, including 750,000 masks. A.
In addition, during the epidemic period, Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce also held an online painting and calligraphy exhibition with the theme of "Fighting the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic" and a public charity auction of paintings and calligraphy, raising more than 260,000 yuan, all of which was used for epidemic prevention and control.
After the epidemic eased, Ningbo "Overseas Chinese Forces" actively responded to the government's call to implement work and production as soon as possible.
The Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce established a "Corporate Supply and Demand Liaison Station" to actively coordinate the chartered car transfers of human resources companies to pick up more than 200 migrant workers from Sichuan, Henan, Guizhou and other places, solve the recruitment difficulties for more than ten companies, and help companies resume work smoothly.
In addition, at the event that night, Ningbo Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce commended 30 "anti-epidemic pioneer units" including Zhejiang Sanli Charity Foundation and 30 "anti-epidemic pioneer individuals" including Li Guide.
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