Baidu has been named one of the top 10 charity companies of the year

    On April 26, 2011, the eighth China charity ranking list, issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was officially unveiled at the national conference center. Baidu, as the only Internet company to be shortlisted, was awarded the title of top 10 charity enterprises of the year.



    "In 2010, baidu used its efforts and persistence to actively practice public welfare and give back to the society, which is why it won this award." The organizer of the conference commented that whether baidu public welfare foundation was established, it would practice public welfare with more professional management. Or carry out the "sunshine action", clean up the Internet bad information; Or actively participate in education, rural teachers to send the latest information and the most advanced courseware; And the poverty alleviation foundation jointly launched the "love package" to send laughter to children. Baidu public welfare is like seven colors of sunshine, seemingly plain and simple, but with the warmth and power of sunshine.



    At the award ceremony, zhang dongchen, baidu's assistant President, said that the new public welfare in the Internet era has become a hot topic that the media and the society generally pay attention to, and the Internet has become the main channel for the society to understand public welfare information and participate in public welfare activities. "Baidu hopes to promote public welfare innovation with technological innovation, make full use of the influence of the Internet platform, and make greater breakthroughs in promoting public welfare undertakings through the Internet."



    In recent years, baidu has participated in and launched a series of public welfare activities. At the beginning of this year, baidu foundation was specially established to manage and practice public welfare undertakings in a more systematic and standard way, focusing on knowledge education, environmental protection, disaster relief and other fields. Just a few days ago, baidu launched the country's first public service Internet platform, which aims to provide free promotion for public organizations across the country. At present, including the China foundation for poverty alleviation, the Chinese Red Cross foundation, China soong ching ling foundation, more than 5 a-class charity has become a public platform of the first beneficiaries, and other interested public welfare institutions currently have can apply through baidu public official website (gongyi.baidu.com) to join the public welfare open platform, the baidu backstage after approval, public welfare organizations can obtain the baidu promotion service free of charge. It is expected that in the next few years, more than 2,000 foundations across the country will join the public welfare ecological network with the highest transparency, the largest participation scale and the lowest threshold.



    Cheng gang, CEO of China foundation center, said, "public welfare is the inevitable trend of public welfare development. Through its huge platform influence and network resources, baidu has made great contributions to the publicity and transparency of public information. In the future, I hope more foundations and businesses will join hands to make better use of the Internet to practice online public welfare." In his opinion, baidu's series of public welfare measures will fully mobilize and release the influence of the Internet platform on social public welfare, provide more convenient channels for the public to obtain public information and participate in public welfare activities, and further promote the realization of the public welfare goal of the whole society.



    Baidu has just won the "outstanding contribution to public welfare in China" award from the China foundation for poverty alleviation, just before it was listed in the "annual top 10 charity enterprises" list by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. And over the years, "earth hour 2010 enterprises the best creative award", "corporate social responsibility in China special award" and other series of heavy charitable and social responsibility, not only for baidu in the practice of public recognition, also means that baidu on the way of public welfare innovation and development, has been at the forefront of the Internet industry.