Actively Support Commonweal Project and Accelerate Society Harmony Development
(1) Actively organize and develop the poverty alleviation project. Poverty alleviation project, aiming at the fact of unbalanced development in rural area, is an important strategy measure which is adopted by CPCC and State Council to alleviate and eliminate the poverty and finally to realize the goal of common prosperity. After the Eight-Seven poverty alleviation plan was carried out, according to the CPCC and State Council's dispose, ICBC has developed poverty alleviation project in Nanjiang County and Tongjiang County in Sichuan Province and Chengkou County in the city of Chongqing. During the period of Eight-Seven poverty alleviation plan, ICBC invested total over RMB 300 million, among which, the loan was RMB 260.19 million to support 26 poverty assist items for the three counties and the donation was RMB 34.96 million to help to set up eight hope project primary schools and other educational and medical treatment constructions in the area.

Zhang Xiao and Chen Keru, the leaders of ICBC, and the leaders of poverty alleviation office of State Council are taking pictures with the students who are helped by ICBC and back to the schools.
After the startup of new poverty alleviation project in 2001, ICBC began to
help the fixed area in Tongjiang County, Nanjiang County and Wanyuan City according
to the arrangement of poverty assist office of State Council. During the six
years, ICBC insisted on the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important
idea of Three Represents to combine carrying out the CPCC and State Council
poverty alleviation development policy into insisting on commercial bank management
rules, and actively explored and actualized the new poverty alleviation method
of item poverty alleviation, intelligence poverty alleviation, sanitation poverty
alleviation, science technology poverty alleviation and calamity help poverty
alleviation. In this period, RMB 4.96 million was donated, and 7 hope project
primary schools were newly built, and 330 prominent village teachers were awarded,
and 210 poor high school graduates were helped to enter the universities, and
3 village hospitals were newly built,