China News Service, Beijing, September 1 (Reporter Zhang Su) The Chinese Red Cross Foundation held the eleventh meeting of the fourth board of directors to deploy work in the second half of this year.

Among them, it is clear that the implementation of the lottery public welfare fund project will be accelerated, and at least 9,000 children with leukemia and congenital heart disease will be rescued throughout the year.

　　The reporter learned from the China Red Foundation on September 1 that at this meeting, the vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Red Foundation, Bei Xiaochao, made a work report on behalf of the Secretariat, summarizing the work of the China Red Foundation since 2021 and proposed Work plan for the second half of the year.

Liu Xuanguo, vice chairman of the China Red Foundation, presented the financial report for the first half of 2021 on behalf of the secretariat.

　　As of June 30, 2021, the total income of the China Red Foundation in the first half of the year was 688 million yuan (RMB, the same below), of which donation income was 338 million yuan, the central special lottery public welfare fund was 335 million yuan, and the value-maintained and value-added income exceeded 15.42 million yuan.

The donation expenditure in the first half of the year was 357 million yuan (excluding the lottery public welfare fund expenditure).

　　The work report concluded in the first half of the year that the Red Cross Society of China, under the leadership of the Red Cross Society of China and the Board of Directors, rushed to emergency flood prevention and disaster relief, continued to support epidemic prevention and control, resumed work and production, and steadily promoted humanitarian relief and humanitarian services. , New progress has been made in various tasks.

　　For example, it has sent 9 batches of 25 people to participate in humanitarian relief operations such as Hebei Anti-epidemic, Yunnan Yangbi Earthquake and Qinghai Maduo Earthquake, Henan Flood Control and Disaster Relief, and collected 54400 relief family boxes to support the disaster-stricken area. The number of people distributed was the highest in history .

　　In another example, the degree and scale of humanitarian assistance reached a new high, supported the cumulative expenditure of 253 million yuan in fighting the epidemic at home and abroad, continued to carry out humanitarian assistance for medical workers, purchased 155 negative pressure ambulances, nucleic acid testing vehicles, and 4 nucleic acid collection kiosks. The front line of epidemic prevention donated 7.328 million masks, medicines, epidemic prevention kits and other materials worth 13.735 million yuan to carry out epidemic prevention and elimination in the rebound of the epidemic in Hebei and the disaster-stricken areas in Henan, with a total area of ​​nearly 70 million square meters.

　　The work report disclosed that according to the work deployment of the General Assembly, 500,000 doses of vaccines, anti-epidemic materials and funds have been aided to 13 countries including Mongolia, Pakistan, Cuba, India, Nepal, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Syria, Cambodia, and Thailand. The value is more than 37 million yuan.

Since the fight against the epidemic, humanitarian assistance has been provided to 52 countries.

　　In addition, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Central Lottery Public Welfare Fund's annual funding for the China Red Foundation's children's critical illness relief project increased by 60% year-on-year compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

Since the beginning of this year, a total of 5006 patients with serious diseases such as leukemia, congenital heart disease, cleft lip and palate have been rescued, 4332 rural doctors, pediatricians, school doctors, etc. have been trained, 63 health centers, school clinics, future classrooms, etc. have been built, and 40 fraternity schools have been built. There are 30 school teams in fraternity.

The "Rare Disease Care Action" has assisted more than 600 patients in total.

　　The work report proposes work arrangements for the second half of the year, including solidly advancing the Henan post-disaster reconstruction project, playing a pivotal role, and building an emergency rescue network system.

　　Guo Changjiang, Chairman of the Red Cross Society of China, said at the meeting that he will strengthen the top-level design, focus on the legal responsibilities of the Red Cross, optimize the connotation of humanitarian services, build a brand project matrix, and promote the high-quality development of humanitarian assistance and humanitarian services.

　　Sun Shuopeng, member of the party group of the Red Cross Society of China, vice chairman, and executive vice chairman of the Red Cross Society of China, put forward new requirements.

He said that we must continue to strengthen credibility and brand building, carefully build brand projects, attach importance to brand communication, increase openness and transparency, and actively accept social supervision, media supervision, and audit supervision.

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