On January 15th, 2018, the Seminar on "Participation of Social Forces in Poverty Alleviation" was held in Beijing by the "China Poverty Alleviation" magazine. Xie Jingrong, Vice Chairperson (full-time) of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Hong Tianyun, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and representatives from the Supreme People's Procuratorate, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Ministry of Health, National Tourism Administration, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Poverty Alleviation Magazine, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, as well as concerned business sectors attended the seminar.
Participants discussed in depth about poverty alleviation through economy, tourism, health care, e-commerce, and the mode of internet plus social forces. At the seminar, the "Case Study on Participation of Social Forces in Poverty Alleviation (2018 - 2020)" was launched, and the innovative poverty alleviation program through e-commerce “Bringing Mountain Products to Headlines: A Hundred County Leaders Promoting Agricultural Products with Shanpin E-commerce” was also released. This seminar was held in the crucial year for China to enter a new era and alleviate poverty, with the purpose of summing up experience, developing ideas, and gathering forces, so as to contribute to poverty alleviation.
On April 13th, 2018, the “Training on Capability of Facilitating Poverty Alleviation for Securities Industry” was held in Xi County, Shanxi Province. The purpose of this training was to broaden the horizen of enterprises participating in targeted poverty alleviation through organizational training, experience exchange, case sharing and project site field trips. More than 200 people from the General Office of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, representatives of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, representatives of the Xi county government of Shanxi Province, heads of poverty alleviation work from the securities industry, officials serving temporary positions in designated counties, and key leading officials in designated counties attended the training.
From September 12 to 15, 2018, CFPA and Dongxing Securities Co., Ltd. held a training course on targeted poverty alleviation capability enhancement in Shanghai. The training course invited representatives working at the front-line for poverty alleviation from Yunyang County of Chongqing, Shaoyang County of Hunan Province, Nileke county of Xinjiang, Linyi County of Gansu Province, Tongwei County of Gansu Province, Foping County of Shaanxi Province, Sihong County of Jiangsu Province, Tongyu County of Jilin Province, and representatives from China Eastern Airlines Group, China Forestry Group, and Jilin University of Construction. More than 110 people participated in the training.
From September 20 to 21, 2018, CFPA held the “Advanced Seminar on Poverty Alleviation for Corporate Senior Management” at the 6th China Charity Fair. More than 100 corporate executives from publicly listed companies, foreign-funded enterprises, private enterprises and financial enterprises attended the seminar.