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By: Yu Huan, Tao Haiyin
As a technology-based engineering company with a profound cultural deposit, CISDI Engineering Co., Ltd. (CISDI) has always utilized the comprehensive advantages in technology, talent and other dimensions, adhered to the strategy of growing prosperous through technology, followed the way of green efficient development, and kept its commitment as a responsible corporate citizen. While growing bigger and stronger itself, CISDI is contributing the resources and strength of a responsible enterprise to promoting the livelihood of the people in need in various forms like poverty elimination, assistance to the poor, assistance to needy students and disaster rescue.
Making Portable Water Available in Poverty-stricken Areas
Restricted by water resources, the residents in Longxiang Town of Tongnan County in Chongqing Municipality used to drink unclean hard water in the long term, leaving themselves exposed to the serious threat to their health. Drinking clean water at an early date has been the expectation of the local residents from generation to generation. Having shouldered the responsibility to alleviate poverty in the town for years, CISDI donated money for building a water supply project in the town, ending the history that local residents drank hard water, and making “water of happiness” available for every household. CISDI’s charitable deed has been highly eulogized by local residents.
Over the past five years, CISDI has helped Longxiang Town, one of the 17 poverty-stricken towns in Tongnan County of Chongqing Municipality, in a host of areas: paved multiple village roads in succession, benefiting nearly 10,000 residents in 3 administrative villages; donated money for the thorough repair of the local geracomium, improved the hardware and software of government organs and schools, and provided facilities; CISDI pay special visits to the seniors accessible to the so-called “Five Guarantees” during festivals, call on poor families, offer consolation money to those extremely poor families, and donate clothes and other materials to them; launched the one-for-one activity to assist the poor students, donate tuitions, computers, stationeries, books to them, and invited them to participate in the company’s performance. In Tongnan County, CISDI has become one of the most reputed organizations, a result of its long-term commitment to eliminating poverty.
Improving the Well-being of the Relocated Households from The Three Gorges
Zhenxi Town, one of the major towns involved in the vast relocation program devised for the Three Gorges Dam, is a regular recipient of the aids from CISDI. CISDI exchanged views with relevant local officials about the construction in the reservoir area, and paid the fact-finding visit to the town to check for the status quo of the relocated households and the difficulties they have met in “settling down and getting rich”. CISDI executives reiterate that CISDI colleagues must look at regular assistance as an important work content, assist the relocated households from the Three Gorges in improving their skills and overall quality, and do practical matters to help the relocated households “move out, settle down and get rich”. To date, to keep its commitment to the corporate social responsibility, CISDI has built a new practical technology training center for the relocated households, purchased teaching facilities, and designed the commercial property plan to promote local urbanization, creating a comfortable environment for the new life of the relocated households.
In 2007, CISDI started to assist Wuxi County, the remotest and poorest county in Chongqing Municipality, on a regular basis. In the same year, CISDI contributed RMB 150,000 to the construction of the public utilities in Fuling District and Wuxi County, and joined hands with 4 other organizations to raise RMB 500,000 in support of the construction of the Baima Middle School in Wuxi County, a move that has been hailed by the leaders of Yuzhong District.
Contributions to the Quake-hit Communities
In 2006, Chongqing encountered an unprecedented drought, CISDI donated RMB 560,000;
In 2007, Chongqing encountered a rainstorm unprecedented in the past century, CISDI donated RMB 500,000;
In 2008, Sichuan Province encountered Wenchuan Earthquake, a tragedy that grieved the entire nation, CISDI donated RMB 2 million;
All the CISDI colleagues are concerned with every disaster and sorrow engraved by every Chinese and Chongqing resident. Over the past six years, CISDI has donated RMB 8 million worth of money and materials to the society, which, however, is just part of CISDI has done in performing its corporate social responsibility. Disaster is ruthless, life is weak, but we always believe that true love is unselfish and helping others is unregretful.
Upon knowing the breakout of Wenchuan Earthquake, CISDI held an urgent meeting to arrange the issue of donation and disaster relief. Just in the morning of the second day after the earthquake, CISDI delivered the first donation of RMB 200,000 to the Red Cross Society of China Chongqing Branch, becoming the first enterprise under the jurisdiction of Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission that donated money to the earthquake-hit communities. During the entire donation activity to the quake-hit communities, CISDI donated a total of more than RMB 2 million through various channels, including RMB 850,000 donated by the staff spontaneously (over 3,000 donations). At the same time, CISDI sent letters of consolation to brother companies, including MCC Shijiu Construction Co., Ltd. and MCC Tiangong Construction Co., Ltd., the customers, including Pangang Group Chengdu Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Pangang Group Sichuan Changcheng Special Steel Co., Ltd. and Pangang Group Chengdu Sheet Metal Co., Ltd., and the partners, including Dongfang Steam Turbine Works and China Erzhong Group. Also, CISDI dispatched the architectural and structural experts to the disaster area to assist the post-quake preliminary assessment, and the technical instruction and review work for the post-quake rebuilding.
After the earthquake, Pangang Group Sichuan Changcheng Special Steel Co., Ltd. has relocated its bar continuous rolling production line to Jiangyou City, also hit by the disaster. CIDIS has undertaken the relocation and rebuilding work as an EPS contractor. After the earthquake, all the staff of CIDIS project department overcame various difficulties with optimism and unity, ensuring the project progress and even successfully advancing the full-load commissioning ahead of schedule. On November 16, 2008, Premier Wen Jiabao extended his warm consolation to the CIDIS staff sticking to their position when visiting the bar continuous rolling plant of Changcheng Special Steel Co., Ltd.
On back of the powerful technical strengths and quality services, CIDIS has been appointed by Chongqing Municipal Construction Commission as the exclusive design institute to participate in the design and technical instruction for the makeshift houses, thus gaining an opportunity to engage in the rebuilding of industrial properties, civil properties, schools and other facilities. On January 6, 2009, when paying a special visit to the site of the Shuangliu County Elementary and Secondary School Project contracted by CIDIS under the EPC mode, Chen Zhili, Vice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and President of the All-China Women’s Federation, highly recognized the active role CIDIS had played in the post-disaster rebuilding work. Scheduled for completion in May, 2009, the project includes Tanghu Elementary School, with a total building area of 28,380 square meters, and Jiujiang Secondary School, with a total building area of 11,667 square meters. After completion, the project can accommodate 4,000-plus students, thus creating a fresh learning environment for the primary and elementary school students in the quake-hit regions.
At the start of the new year, CIDIS will continue performing its corporate social responsibility as usual while steadily advancing various businesses of the company, and take an active part in the regional economic construction and poverty relief in pursuit of the mission to reward the society.