Nov. 13: We held a press briefing at the Shenzhen campus on the Global Social Finance Forum’s 2017 Social Impact Investing Summit scheduled for Dec. Chairman Ma Weihua outlined how impact investing is having a profound influence on the global development of charitable undertaking, and is generating a newly emerging third sector that perfectly combines charitable endowments, impact investing and business development is approaching. CGPI’s role is to pioneer a way to innovate and develop China's social finance by organizing the first camp for social finance leaders in China. The camp will cultivate professionals with a global perspective and a creative mindset who will then lead societal development and thus meet China's needs in this key area.
On October 28, 2017, co-organized by China Global Philanthropy Institute and China Taiping, themed at “the wealth mission in the era of philanthropic economy,” “Brainstorming Sessions in Ten Cities” was opened in Beijing, which lasted about ten days. Among the six sessions held in Beijing, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Zhengzhou, Harbin, and Qingdao, experts from the fields of economics, society, science and technology, public welfare, etc. and more than a thousand excellent entrepreneurs and social elites gathered for the event. Through listening, exchanging and sharing, the events aimed to improve the wisdom for creating wealth, managing wealth, planning wealth, and inheriting wealth in the new era. By using new ways of thinking and new methods to help high net worth individuals to realize family cultural inheritance, spiritual inheritance, capital inheritance and social inheritance, and making contributions to social harmony and fairness and justice in addition to the achievement of family harmonious development.
To push forward China-US pragmatic cooperation in impact investment and promote innovative development of social finance in China, China Global Philanthropy Institute will make groundbreaking explorations: through global social finance exchange, China’s 1st Senior Social Finance Senior is to beheld to train social finance talents who have a world insight and vision and the spirit of innovation, lead social progress, and attune to the development need of inclusive finance in China.
On September 24, the 1st CGPI Alumni Forum in 2017 which was organized by China Global Philanthropy Institute (CGPI) and CGPI Alumni Association and supported by institutions such as China Council of Lions Clubs was held in Beijing. With the theme of “Sharing and Intergrowth”, the forum emphasized “Professional Philanthropy and Joint Action” to demonstrate the thinking and action of CGPI philanthropy leaders in the area of professionalization of Chinese philanthropy. It was advocated at the forum that the philanthropy industry should achieve professionalization through education, carry out horizontal cooperation, as well as solve social issues, lead social civilization and promote social progress by joint action.
From September 25 – 27, as an important exchange platform of Chinese-French cooperation, the 2nd “Chinese – French Cultural Forum” was held in Lyons, the second biggest city in France. More than 500 personages of all circles from both China and France, including Chen Zhu, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and President of Western Returned Scholars Association Chinese Overseas-returned Scholars Association, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Former French Prime Minister and Chairman of La Fondation Prospective & Innovation (French Prospective and Innovation Foundation)attended the event. Ma Weihua, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Global Philanthropy Institute, Niu Gensheng, Initiator of the Institute, Wang Zhenyao, President of the Institute, Guo Su, Assistant President of the Institute, and Dong Fangjun, Representative of Outstanding Students of GPL Program and many others attended the event by invitation.
On September 1, 2017, on the occasion of the upcoming 2nd anniversary of China Global Philanthropy Institute, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the founding of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation China Office, Wang Zhenyao, President of China Global Philanthropy Institute and China Philanthropy Research Institute, described his connection with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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