Recently, Hong Kong mainstream media Ta Kung Pao reported on AMTD’s efforts and achievements in serving the public welfare. The full text is as follows:
As a comprehensive enterprise group rooted in Hong Kong, based in the Bay Area, backed by the motherland and facing global development, and also Asia's leading independent investment bank and the only Hong Kong-funded financial institution among the World Economic Forum's global strategic partners, AMTD Group's thriving growth has benefited from the prosperity of the motherland. After nearly 20 years of development, transformation and upgrading, AMTD has gradually developed into Hong Kong's leading comprehensive license operation, full-chain enterprise group with financial institutions as the core, and is moving towards diversified development, becoming a multi-format comprehensive group covering digital banking, investment banking, asset management, risk solutions, strategic investment, real estate and education.
Calvin Choi (first from left), Chairman of AMTD Group and AMTD Charitable Foundation, personally led the AMTD volunteer team to visit 18 districts in Hong Kong, distributing more than 100,000 masks and other anti-epidemic supplies to the community to support the community in Hong Kong in preventing diseases and fighting the epidemic. Pictured is an activity in Wan Chai District
As the Group grows, AMTD also attaches great importance to corporate social responsibility, and has always upheld the charitable spirit of "grateful to the society and serving the public", caring for the community from different levels. During this period, through the AMTD Charity Foundation initiated by Calvin Choi, Chairman of AMTD Group, it actively helps the poor and provides education, supporting the disadvantaged groups in the motherland and Hong Kong.
A peaceful and harmonious world is achieved when the people are prosperous, and a peaceful and harmonious world is achieved when the people are happy. Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and gradually achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. Poverty alleviation and development are related to the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, the well-being of the people, and the long-term stability and international image of the country. Winning the battle against poverty is the common wish and mission of all Chinese people, and Hong Kong cannot stay out of it. Hong Kong companies have the responsibility and ability to participate in it, which is also the belief and mission of AMTD Group and AMTD Charity Foundation.
Calvin Choi attended the first board of directors of the Greater Bay Area Common Home Youth Charity Fund and served as the vice chairman of the fund, bringing together young leaders from all walks of life to help Hong Kong youth achieve their dreams
AMTD and The Chinese Foundation School of Hong Kong held the "Youth Forum on 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up"
Love knows no boundaries, fighting the epidemic together
Over the past five years, AMTD Charity Foundation has organized volunteer employees to visit Hong Kong communities and families in need every year, providing them with cotton clothes, clothing and other daily necessities, bringing them social care and warmth.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, AMTD Charity Foundation donated RMB 2 million to the Hubei Red Cross Society as soon as possible, becoming one of the first Hong Kong companies to support Hubei. Hubei Vice Governor Zhao Haishan personally called to express his gratitude. AMTD also used a material collection team composed of expatriate employees in Japan, Europe and other countries to purchase medical supplies abroad to help Hubei fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Calvin Choi, Chairman of AMTD Group and AMTD Charity Foundation, also personally led the AMTD volunteer team to travel throughout the 18 districts of Hong Kong, distributing more than 100,000 masks and other epidemic prevention materials to the community to support the Hong Kong community in epidemic prevention and control.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, AMTD Charity Foundation donated RMB 2 million to the Hubei Red Cross Society. Pictured is the donation certificate issued by the Hubei Red Cross Foundation.
Since 2008, AMTD has been working with Caritas Hong Kong, a large public welfare charity organization in Hong Kong, for more than ten consecutive years to gather forces from all walks of life, convey love to the public, and support and promote Hong Kong's poverty alleviation charity. Caritas Hong Kong is one of the largest non-profit organizations in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1953 and aims to provide relief and rehabilitation services to the poor. The service scope is wide, mainly including social work, education, medical care, community development, and hotel and catering services. As an organization providing diversified social services, Caritas is based on the spirit of "serving with love and creating hope", providing various people-oriented quality services and launching a number of pioneering projects to help people in need live a rich life. The "Caritas Warms the Heart" TV fundraising program co-organized by Caritas Hong Kong and AMTD Charity Foundation is a grand annual charity event in Hong Kong. By inviting well-known Hong Kong entertainment and caring people in the community to perform on the same stage, the public is encouraged to donate money to support Caritas' various community services and benefit more disadvantaged communities. The program attracts millions of individual viewers and over 300,000 family viewers every year. It has raised more than tens of millions of dollars to date and provides assistance to more than 15,000 elderly people, 10,000 families, 8,000 mentally handicapped people and 6,300 teenagers each year.
Since 2008, AMTD has been working with Caritas Hong Kong, a large public welfare charity organization in Hong Kong, for thirteen consecutive years to gather strength from all walks of life, convey love to the public, and support and promote Hong Kong's poverty alleviation charity. Pictured is the 2017 "Caritas Warms Thousands of Hearts" Charity Gala
Cultivate talents and realize dreams
It is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. Providing suitable employment and education opportunities for poor residents is the best way to help them get rid of poverty and become rich. In the field of youth work and educational innovation, AMTD strongly supports talent cultivation and academic research, youth education, and outstanding youth innovation and entrepreneurship. AMTD has repeatedly served as the only strategic partner and founding partner, and has worked with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council to jointly organize the "Entrepreneurship Express" startup incubation program to support young entrepreneurs in innovation and entrepreneurship, lead local startups to the international technology market, and encourage young people to create more employment opportunities through innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote social inclusive development.
AMTD and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council jointly organized the "Startup Express" startup incubation program to support young entrepreneurs in innovation and entrepreneurship, lead local startups to the international technology market, encourage young people to create more employment opportunities through innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote inclusive social development
In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, AMTD insisted on not laying off employees or cutting salaries, and insisted on recruiting new people and creating more jobs to support people and families in need to tide over the difficulties together.
AMTD cooperates with local schools to organize internship programs. The picture shows the students participating in the program taking a group photo
AMTD and the University of Waterloo in Canada have jointly established the "AMTD-Waterloo Global Talent Development Program" to help students in need to study at world-class universities to cultivate their innovative abilities and expand their international horizons, hoping to change the fate of their families and individuals through education.
Financial technology for poverty alleviation
With the continuous promotion of "Internet +" and inclusive finance, AMTD is well aware that the use of technological means can better promote the development of inclusive finance; the use of financial technology to promote targeted poverty alleviation can promote the transformation and upgrading of financial business, quickly improve intelligent services, and thus better meet the financial consumption needs of customers in the information age.
AMTD and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University jointly established the first school-enterprise collaborative fintech academy in Hong Kong: "PolyU School of Business AMTD Fintech Academy"
AMTD Group highly values the role of financial technology in promoting targeted poverty alleviation. AMTD Digital, a subsidiary of AMTD, is a one-stop digital solution platform that covers digital financial licenses and services, digital media marketing and data intelligence analysis, digital network construction and collaboration, and digital economy investment. AMTD Digital is committed to building a one-stop, comprehensive, cross-market and creative digital solution platform to serve Asian consumers and growing companies, and integrates digital banking, digital insurance, digital asset exchanges, electronic payments and remittances and other digital licensed services in Asia. As the core engine of the AMTD Spider Web ecosystem, AMTD Digital plays its core driving role through resource matching and empowerment, and is committed to helping different customers solve their pain points and problems in various aspects of business development and internationalization, providing customized digital solutions, and achieving leapfrog development in the digital age.
AMTD has been the only strategic partner to support the Hong Kong FinTech Week for three consecutive years
In 2019, AMTD and Xiaomi jointly established Airstar Bank, which holds one of the only eight virtual bank licenses issued by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. In June 2020, Airstar Bank officially opened in Hong Kong. At the beginning of its opening, Airstar Bank launched an account service with no minimum deposit threshold for the general public to benefit poor residents. At the same time, Airstar Bank also launched a convenient loan service. Through the Airstar Bank airstar mobile app, customers can apply for loans in real time. Customers can enjoy an annual interest rate as low as 2.99%, calculated on a daily basis, and there is no handling fee. In addition to enjoying more convenient loan services, they also enjoy the advantage of ultra-low interest rates, so that residents in need can obtain financial support in the shortest time, with the fastest application and at the lowest cost.
AMTD and Xiaomi jointly established Tianxing Bank. At the beginning of its operation, Tianxing Bank launched an account service with no minimum deposit threshold for the general public to benefit poor residents
Calvin Choi, Chairman of AMTD Group and AMTD Charitable Foundation, said that 2020 is the year to achieve the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and the year to win the battle against poverty. The people of the whole country, including Hong Kong, will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, strengthen their confidence, forge ahead with determination, work hard and do solid work, and resolutely win the battle against poverty, so as to make due contributions to winning the decisive battle to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving the first centenary goal!
