Greenpeace and Chengdu-based environmental NGO Hengduan Mountain Research Society are jointly appealing to the Sichuan Provincial Government to immediately halt mining activities in high-risk areas of geological disasters and giant panda habitats.

Sichuan Fenfang Chunlei Primary School, a charity school project financed by Finnish organizations, will hold its opening ceremony on September 29, 2009.

The BMW Compassion Fund from the China Charity Federation has donated CNY1 million to the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center to protect such intangible culture heritage items as the craft of wood engraved pictures in Mianzhu, Sichuan, the Qiang People's embroidery, and the art of the Qiang flute.

UNICEF has formally released an anniversary report on the aid it has offered to the earthquake devastated area in China over the past year.

Liu Jing, the deputy director of the China Association of Social Workers, has told local media that the 2009 China Charity List will soon be released and, for the first time, it will reveal the names of companies that had promised to make donations but failed to do so.

The Wenchuan Earthquake Disabled and Orphaned Children Relief Fund, a part of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund, plans to build 100 more "Care Islands" in Sichuan's earthquake areas by the end of this year.

The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China Life Charity Fund have entered into a cooperation agreement on helping orphans who lost their families in the Wenchuan earthquake to rebuild their lives.