The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation has granted the first batch of small funds for the post-disaster psycho-social programs of five organizations including Gansu Wenxian Post-disaster Rebuilding and Poverty Alleviation and Development Promotion Council, and the Doujiangyan Mother's Home.

A kindergarten in Tiantai Town, Qionglai, Sichuan, which was a victim of the May 12, 2008 earthquake, has been officially re-opened as Wirtgen Tiantai Kindergarten with funding from the construction machinery company Wirtgen China.

A forest-based carbon sink project in China's Sichuan province, which is said to be the world's first climate, community and biodiversity based forest carbon sink project, has been successfully registered at the CDM Council of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Seven nature reserves have been approved by the Chinese National Committee for Man and Biosphere Program to join the China Biosphere Protection Network.

The environmental departments of 11 Chinese provinces have jointly signed a framework agreement on cooperation to protect the environment.

By Kay Zhang
During his visit to Beijing in 2006, a friend of Care for Children introduced us to an American company. I remember it was early in the morning when we visited their office in central Beijing. The chief representative, Mr. Tan, welcomed us and we four sat in their office and talked about the [...]

It is learned from the Sichuan Provincial Foreign Affairs Office that Sichuan has signed cooperation agreements with Macau Foundation and the foundation will aid in the reconstruction of the Beichuan Qiang Folk Museum in Mianyang city and Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan city in Sichuan.