Participating in
public welfare and
charity programs
In pursuing overall development, Sinopec is involved in the public welfare and charity programs, and has established a social contribution system focusing on rural revitalization; social welfare; public welfare through proprietary brands; and environmental protection public welfare programs. It makes its contribution as a central enterprise by promoting social progress and improving people's well-being through diverse public welfare and charity programs.
Social welfare
"Sinopec Lifeline" Express
Since 2004, Sinopec has participated in the Health Express philanthropic program. In 2007, it donated 30 million yuan to build "the Sinopec Lifeline" Express, which is dedicated to providing free eye disease treatment services in the Chinese mainland. This is the first and only mobile ophthalmic hospital dedicated to charitable medical activities donated by a mainland-based company in China. Known as the mobile eye hospital, it is an important national project for cataract prevention and treatment.
Starting from 2009, "the Sinopec Lifeline" Express enters three poverty-stricken areas every year, and treats 3,000 people annually on average. With a success rate of over 99.9%, it is comparable to any Grade-A tertiary hospital in the first-tier cities in China. In 2022, the Express provided free assistance to 1,995 cataract patients in Huangshi, Hubei; and Dingxi and Linxia, Gansu. Besides, it has two Ophthalmology treatment centers, one in Dingxi, Gansu and the other in Linyi, Shandong.
By the end of 2022, Sinopec has donated a total of 190 million yuan to the Health Express program to build 24 cataract treatment centers, and offered training to local ophthalmologists, leaving parked train hospitals for locals. "The Sinopec Lifeline" Express has travelled to 44 service sites in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, helping more than 52,000 cataract patients regain eyesight.
"Driver's Home"
In recent years, in order to facilitate outdoor workers such as truck drivers during their travel, Sinopec has worked with national and local federations of trade unions to build "Driver's Homes" in many provinces and cities across the country; and provide truck drivers with services to allow truck drivers to park and rest. In 2022, Sinopec accelerated the standardization of the "Drivers' Home" program; unified site selection; created functional standards and visual images; established a "2+7+X" service system; and set up flagship, standard and ordinary service outlets, meeting the diverse needs of drivers. In addition, it built a "2+7+X" service system to improve service quality, creating a "road home" for truck drivers. By the end of 2022, Sinopec had 3,586 "Driver's Homes" in service. It plans to build 5,000 such homes during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, forming a service network covering the whole country.
"Love Station"
To satisfy the needs of outdoor workers, Sinopec has built a full-fledged matrix of "benefiting people" through its "caring" and "practical" stations, providing "7+X" caring services for free. With its enriched service functions, the "Love Station" provides services to outdoor workers such as drivers, sanitation workers, and take-out deliverymen. By the end of 2022, Sinopec had built 5,415 Love Stations, and planned to add 8,000 during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, making full use of the platform's advantages to enable more people to benefit from its development.
Outdoor workers avoid the summer heat at a Sinopec "Love Station"
Public welfare through proprietary brands
Sinopec supports its proprietary brands participating in social welfare programs and encourages its partners and other sectors to join its efforts.
In May 2022, Sinopec Easy Joy initiated "Micro Hope Plan", a public welfare program dedicated to helping rural teachers and supporting rural education; and launched 2,022 public welfare energy packages. The program focuses on the sports activities of rural schools in the new era, providing sports equipment for rural teachers and helping rural teenagers realize their sports dreams. In the meantime, with a series of activities consisting of a range of national public welfare live streaming; nationwide public welfare; entertaining and instructive public welfare classes; trips to seek the source of Micro Hope; batches of high-quality fresh farm produce; and a Micro Hope public welfare art exhibition, a public welfare lineup has been established, in a bid to build an Easy Joy-based higher-level national fitness system involving enterprise assistance and public participation.
In July 2022, at the sports specialist schools in Zhejiang province, the first leg of the "Easy Joy Micro Hope Plan" public welfare classes, "the Happy growth at the Micro Hope playground" were launched, to help rural PE teachers improve their teaching quality, stimulate students' interest in sports, and cultivate their good sports habits
Environmental protection for public welfare
Sinopec follows the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are valuable assets", focusing on environmental protection public welfare as part of ecological conservation. It is engaged in environmental protection activities, guiding employees and the public in contributing to environmental protection.
In March 2022, the Sinopec Saihanba Ecological Demonstration Forest "Internet + Voluntary Tree Planting" program was launched on yiwuzhishu.cn, a website for nationwide voluntary tree planting communication. As China's first of its kind program by a large-sized central enterprise, it raised funds for the development of an ecological demonstration forest in the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm in Hebei province, helping improve the quality and ecological value of state-owned forests; and exploring new paths for achieving "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" goal, and supporting local ecological conservation and socioeconomic development. Since its launch, the program has received a strong response from the group company's officials and employees and general public. By the end of March, more than 154,000 people had donated about 6.75 million yuan. In May, the program started implementation in the forest farm. As of July, 1,000 mu or 66.67 hectares of afforestation and 13.1-kilometer-long fencing had been completed, and 162,500 trees had been planted.
In March 2022, Sinopec Baling Petrochemical responded to the "Internet + voluntary tree planting" initiative, and organized a voluntary tree planting activity for "protecting the Yangtze River as a pacesetter". For the fifth consecutive year, the company carried out voluntary tree planting on the main dikes of the Yangtze River, planting more than 3,000 trees in total, a move to contribute to "the most beautiful Yangtze River banks"
In July 2022, the "Embracing the 'Dual Carbon' for a Win-Win Future" geothermal science popularization public welfare exhibition, co-hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology and Sinopec, received more than 400,000 visits, popularizing low-carbon environmental protection; and fulfilling the central enterprise's social responsibility for science popularization.
The "Embracing the 'Dual Carbon' for a Win-Win Future" geothermal science popularization public welfare exhibition, co-hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology and Sinopec, received more than 400,000 visits in just five months following its launch at the China Science and Technology Museum