Annual Report 2019

73 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 C-Blue Summer Camp for Realizing Children’s Dream (C-Blue 兒童圓夢夏令營 ) On 10 August 2019, the Group organised the fifth session of “C-Blue Summer Camp for Making Children’ s Dream Come True” (C-Blue 兒童圓夢夏令營 ) under the theme of “Intelligent Port, a Place to Start Pursuing Children’s Dreams Together” ( 相 聚智慧港 同啟少年夢 ), where 50 families with left-behind children gathered in Shenzhen and together visited the first 5G port laboratory in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the largest storage yard equipped with automated RTG remote control system in China, both located in West Shenzhen Port Zone. A series of rich and diversified visiting and experiencing activities have enabled the children to understand the significance of efficient and smart modern intelligent ports and marine national defense and truly experience the hardship of their parents’ work, thereby strengthening their parent-child relationships and enjoying quality time with their families. As of the end of 2019, the “C-Blue Summer Camp for Realizing Children’s Dream” (C-Blue 兒童圓夢夏令營 ) has serviced a total of 260 families with left-behind children The Fifth Session of C-Blue Summer Camp for Realizing Children’s Dream (C-Blue 兒童 圓夢夏令營 ) China Merchants Silk Road Hope Village In order to further integrate with the local community, assist the underprivileged and give back to the community, CICT, being a key node of the “Belt and Road” initiative, systematically carried out a public welfare campaign with a target to “Plant Roots for Sustainable Development”( 落地 生根 , 持續發展 ) upon thorough planning. At the beginning of 2019, CICT began the “China Merchants Silk Road Hope Village”( 招商絲路愛心村 ) project, the purpose of which was to assist poor villages overseas by actively enhancing their local wealth-generating ability. Upon numerous visits, investigations and exchanges, the project team chose Pannila village, which was in desperate need of assistance, to include in the “China Merchants Silk Road Hope Village”( 招商絲路愛心村 ) project. The team contributed to the construction of social activity centers, building and renovations of roads, and distributed schooling items and living necessities to local students and elderly, respectively, in Pannila village where has become CMG Group’s first targeted poverty alleviation village in Sri Lanka. CICT donated schooling items, daily necessities and nutritional supplement packages to 300 students and 119 elderly, aged 70 or above, respectively, in Pannila Village