Business spirit. Public interest
“corporate social responsibility is not an add-on, but an answer!” ms. Chen yanjun, chairman of the shanghe company, set the tone for the pro bono practice of the firm in her recent pro bono forum。
Since the establishment of the shankh foundation for the public interest in 2014, companies have developed a system of social responsibility based on the three main public goods of "let love out" and "let love continue" and "single aid" projects. When commercial values intersect with social values in depth, shankh has spent 32 years leaving the mark of 264 public-interest schools in 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, investing a total of $6. 559 million in caring funds, benefiting more than 110,000 schoolchildren — behind this set is a dynamic pattern of business leaders taking public goods to strategic heights and, more importantly, a graphic model of corporate participation in social governance。
Three major public goods projects of the sangh public interest foundation
Educational temperature behind the data
Among the most recent figures published by the shankh public interest foundation, a particularly striking set of figures is the entry of 224,000 books into the campus through the “shangh library” project, the building of a bridge of knowledge through the 7. 64 million-yard library resources and the participation of over 140,000 volunteers. Behind these data are the hopes of countless children left behind for equal access to education, a significant improvement in the poor conditions in schools in remote areas, and a vivid practice of corporate citizenship。
The dawn of education on the snow plateau
In the blackwater district of the akam tibetan autonomous region, sichuan province, with an average altitude of 3,500 metres above sea level, the construction of the shanghe public interest foundation is soaking up the land as snow mountains. The rehabilitation programme for six local schools, at a cost of approximately $1. 2 million, has entered the substantive phase, with special historical missions and real challenges:
In blackwater county, the 7-1-vicum primary school, which was reconstructed after the 2008 “5. 12” earthquake, a stronger growth platform for the remaining children is now being built with the assistance of the shankh public interest foundation; in sichuan province, the primary secondary school of the akam tibetan autonomous region, blackwater district, sichuan province, the intervention of shanh will further upgrade the level of its teaching facilities; and in the case of the full primary school, the central school of zakou, the primary school of zimulin boarding, the primary school of red rock boarding, there is a relatively high level of common challenge, such as the shortage of hardware facilities and the relatively high number of children left behind。
Renovation of the school reading room at the zakou town centre, blackwater county
The shangh public interest foundation is sowing the seeds of knowledge for this land through multi-dimensional assistance in upgrading teaching equipment, supplementing library resources and upgrading dormitories. As the head of the foundation said, “we must not just build school buildings, we must create opportunities for every child to touch the world”
The warmth of the good season continues
In the context of the “changhe public interest season” in 2025, the foundation's working group undertook a return visit to the assisted areas of sichuan and xinjiang. In a primary school in manas county, xinjiang province, volunteers found that the “shangh library” donated a year ago had become the student's favorite space of activity, and book lending records showed that on average more than eight books had been read; in a small school in the suklim autonomous district, new shangkh water purification machines had been installed to provide safe drinking water to teachers and students. These details attest to the fact that the public good is not a single aid, but rather a sustainable ecology。
Public interest philosophy from numbers to life
“the essence of equity in education is equality of opportunity in life.” “when we see the children of blackwater county, depicting the savannah with new drawing tools, and when the teachers of a boarding school in xinjiang told us that the library had given tibetan bilingual teaching more carriers, these were more convincing than any data.”
At present, the shanghu public interest foundation has developed a complete public goods chain of “aid-enabling-returning”. The public goods run, which began with assistance from educational facilities, is moving towards deeper educational ecology。
Concluding remarks
From the point of view of the snow plateau, the shanghu public interest foundation has been resonating with education equity. When 264 public-interest schools are transformed into 110,000 growth dreams, and when 7. 64 million books rise up the ladder of knowledge, the firm has demonstrated for decades that the real good is that every child can see the wider world in the same blue sky。
