The Company accords great importance to the founding of local community ties in the place of operation and deems it obligatory to give back to the general society by active participation in charitable works, rendering service to community building, making donation and providing aids for students, thus promoting the harmonious development of both the Company and society.

As always, the Company regarded integration with and service to local economies as the requirements of corporate development in 2019. It adhered to the spirit of volunteering of CNOOC, assumed the social responsibility of a central enterprise, gave full play to the unique advantages enjoyed by a central enterprise, continuously improved the volunteering system, and launched a series of public welfare activities.

CNOOC Huahe’s youth volunteer team “Future Power” actively expanded its voluntary services, continuously enriched its service contents, and organised over 100 voluntary activities, such as agrochemical services, targeted poverty alleviation, donations to schools, voluntary labour, public welfare promotion, solicitude for military police, rescue and disaster relief missions, that benefited more than 60,000 people. More than RMB400,000 worth of monetary and in-kind donations were made in aggregate.

Hainan Basuo port installed the windproof dust suppression net, at the meantime protection forests were planted to reduce the noise during operation, achieving a comprehensive dust-proof efficiency of over 85%. The measures took port environmental management to a new level by effectively addressing the needs of surrounding residents, promoting the harmonious development of the port area and the city.

On 28 October 2019, the Company participated in the poverty alleviation work after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Xiahe County, Gansu Province. Immediately after the disaster, a poverty alleviation cadre of our company coordinated with relevant departments to organise an evacuation to prevent secondary disasters and ensure the safety of people. Disaster relief work was actively initiated after the situation was fully assessed to minimise the economic loss of local people. Our company will continue to pay close attention to the progress of the relief work in Xiahe County, and provide assistance within its ability to restore production and normal life as soon as possible. In the past two years, the Company invested more than RMB9.34 million in aggregate in a yak breeding project, which effectively drove the economic development of the farming villages in Xiahe County, the construction of a good breeding system, and the adjustment of industry structure, so that farmers and herdsmen could escape poverty and be better off. Meanwhile, poverty alleviation projects such as the construction of auxiliary facilities for Qu’aoxiang health centre, the poverty alleviation tourism campsite project, and the education and poverty alleviation fund were actively carried out.