Recently, the results of the 16th People's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Case Collection, which was guided and sponsored by People's Daily were released. GF Fund was successfully selected as one of the "People's CSR Recommended Cases of 2021" by virtue of its diversified initiatives in fulfilling social responsibility, which is the only one in the securities industry.
The People's CSR Case Collection is an influential selection activity in China and an important yardstick to measure the fulfillment of social responsibility by enterprises. With the purpose of "authority, popularization and credibility", this activity collects practical cases of enterprises' fulfillment of social responsibility from five dimensions, such as communist party leading, enterprise performance, rural revitalization, green development and public welfare actions. After independent declaration, compliance review, online opinion collection and expert opinion solicitation, 87 "People's Corporate Social Responsibility Recommended Cases for 2021" were finally recommended from domestic and foreign enterprises in various industries. For their initiatives, outstanding contributions, practices and effectiveness in industry, consumption, employment, education and capital in helping the process of rural revitalization, GF Fund and other 24 well-known enterprises were selected as the recommended cases in the theme of "Rural Revitalization".
In recent years, along with the booming wave of the asset management industry, public funds have been making continuous efforts to create more value for customers and society while achieving their own growth and expansion. As a model of financial inclusion, the Chinese fund industry was born with the attribute of social responsibility, with the mission of serving the real economy, playing the role of professional institutional investors, effectively improving the efficiency of resource allocation, promoting social direct financing, contributing to the development of the real economy, and helping residents to preserve and increase their wealth.
Since its establishment, GF Fund has never forgotten the original intention of universal benefit, adhered to the fundamental positioning of serving the public's financial management and the real economy, fulfilled the role of trustee of fund properties, rewarded investors with value creation, and dedicated to society with responsibility.
The company actively practices ESG investment, joins the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, implements the concept of green investment, and guides listed enterprises and investors to pay more attention to the harmonization of economic and social benefits through the evolution of investment framework.
Currently, GF Fund has issued and operated several green index products, actively guiding financial resources to focus on environmental protection industries such as photovoltaic and energy storage; integrating ESG issues in the process of communication with listed companies and bond issuers, raising the attention of investee companies to ESG, optimizing the governance structure of investee companies and building a better ecosphere, promoting and optimizing the sustainable development environment of the industry; giving full play to the functions of value discovery. It also gives full play to the function of value discovery and asset pricing, strives to promote investee companies to improve their development quality, and strives to shoulder the historical mission of optimizing financing structure, stimulating economic vitality and fostering innovative power to promote China's economic transformation and sustainable development.
While exerting its own professional strength, GF Fund has consciously taken up the mission of the times, cultivated family sentiment and helped realize the vision of common prosperity. Through the GF Fund Public Welfare Foundation, the company has actively carried out social welfare projects such as education assistance, poverty relief, emergency relief and medical assistance, etc. Up to now, the total amount invested in public welfare undertakings has exceeded 54 million RMB. Firstly, it helped to fight against poverty and did its best for the longing of "people also work to stop, can be well-off" for thousands of years, and then it set up the goal of "helping rural revitalization with education" and made education public welfare the focus of public welfare charity work, trying to add color to the magnificent picture of rural revitalization. We will continue to explore the possibility of education and education.
GF Fund will continue to explore the road of fulfilling social responsibility, practicing inclusive finance, improving ESG investment system, devoting to social welfare, integrating institutional development into the tide of the times, combining internal and external measures, taking multiple measures, and striving to play an active role in serving the real economy, building a new development pattern and promoting common wealth, and creating more value for society.