The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), Executive Committee of Foreign Investment Companies (ECFIC) and Chinese Foundation for Lifeline Express (CFLE) jointly sponsored a ceremony on January 10 of 2011 to commend multinationals operating in China for their donations in 2010 to Lifeline Express Project aiming to light lives of poverty-stricken cataract patients. Mr. Yu Jianhua, member of the CPC Leadership Group of MOFCOM, Mr. Liu Shanzai, Vice Chairman of CFLE, and representatives from 9 commended multinationals that won the recognition attended the ceremony.

Mr. Yu Jianhua appreciated multinational enterprises for their actions in actively participating in philanthropy and fulfilling corporate social responsibilities (CSR) and hoped that multinational enterprises could integrate their long-term development objectives with requirements for the construction of harmonious society of China as to make greater contributions to China’s economic construction and philanthropy by concrete efforts.

Since 2004, advocated and supported by MOFCOM, ECFIC and CFLE have jointly held many fund-raising activities and gained strong support from multinational enterprises in China; as a result, the lifeline express project was promoted in multinational enterprises around China. In past 6 years, CFLE had the total donation worth of over 20 million yuan from multinational enterprises.

In 2010, CFLE received the donation totaling 2.17 million yuan by 9 multinational enterprises including Lee Kum Kee, NU SKIN China, Pfizer China, Panasonic Corporation of China, Dell China, Mary Kay (China) Cosmetics, Jardine Matheson China, NISSAN China and Dupont China, which could help 1,000 poor cataract patients receive free operation.

Chinese Foundation for Lifeline Express (CFLE) is ranked by the Ministry of Civil Affairs as a 4A-class charitable and public-offering foundation, whose core project “Lifeline Express”, China’s first mobile eye hospital on train, provides operation free of charge for poverty-stricken cataract patients in remote regions. In past 14 years since 1997, four Lifeline Express trains have traveled to 27 provinces, cities and autonomous regions as well as 105 different stations from 83 regions, performed free operations for more than 110,000 cataract patients and helped their families shake off poverty and become better off.