Shenzhen Canyou Wins First China Social Innovation Award
Time:2010-12-27
At the time when Shenzhen is blowing the horn of social construction, the first "China Social Innovation Award" jointly organized by the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (CCTB) and Peking University was announced yesterday at the Boya International Conference Center of Peking University, the only nominated project in Shenzhen, the "Social Enterprise Incubation Model for the Disabled" organized by Shenzhen Canyou Group and Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation. "Yesterday in the Peking University Boya International Conference Center was announced, the only nominated project in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Canyou Group and the Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation to organize and implement the "social enterprise incubation model for people with disabilities" project was finally awarded the top ten project awards, "Winning Prize The project "Social Enterprise Incubation Model for People with Disabilities" organized by Shenzhen Canyou Group and Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation finally won the "Winner Award" of the Top Ten Project Award.
China's First Social Innovation Award
Yesterday's selection and presentation of the first China Social Innovation Award was attended by experts and scholars in the field of China's social innovation, government representatives, representatives of social organizations and the media, as well as by Prof. Yu Keping, deputy director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Prof. Li Peilin, president of the Chinese Sociological Society and Prof. Li Peilin, president of the South China Council of Sociology. Professor Yu Keping, Deputy Director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Professor Li Peilin, President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Mr. Xu Yongguang, Chairman of the Nandu Public Welfare Foundation, delivered speeches respectively. Professor Yu Keping said in his speech that the 17th National Congress of the CPC put forward the idea of accelerating the promotion of social construction with the focus on improving people's livelihoods, and that social construction has become a fundamental task of the CPC and the government just as much as the construction of economy, politics and culture. Against this background, the awarding of China's first social innovation prize is an important moment.
Prof. Zhou Hongyun, Director of the Organizing Committee of the China Innovation Award, introduced the selection process to the guests, saying that since the launch of the award in May, the organizing committee has received a total of 161 submissions from 22 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country, and the projects are broadly distributed in the areas of protection of disadvantaged groups, social undertakings, public welfare support, community services, The projects are widely distributed in the fields of protection of vulnerable groups, social causes, public welfare support, community services, poverty alleviation, environmental protection, industry self-regulation and services, and so on. In accordance with the selection procedures, the Organizing Committee organized experts to conduct strict qualification examination and preliminary selection of the declared projects. The expert evaluation team evaluated the projects according to the following criteria: "degree of innovation", "degree of effectiveness", "degree of participation", "degree of importance", "degree of promotion", and "degree of publicity". In accordance with the "degree of innovation", "degree of effectiveness", "degree of participation", "degree of importance", "degree of promotion" five criteria, the preliminary selection of the project carried out a careful review, voted for 20 shortlisted projects.
The Wulin Conference of China's Public Welfare Circle.Yesterday's selection and awarding conference can be said to be China's public welfare circle of the martial arts conference, 20 finalist projects through the heavy selection to stand out to get nominated for the award, which in itself represents the highest level of China's social innovation, but the top 20 still need to be in the eyes of the experts and judges for the final presentation, to determine the final winners. The final presentation will be made under the watchful eyes of experts and judges to determine the final winner.
Mr. Zheng Weining, the founder of Canyou, came to the stage as the third delegate, and he was the only delegate in a wheelchair, saying that the project of "Canyou Social Enterprise Incubation Model" is a public welfare project organized and carried out by the Shenzhen Canyou Group and the Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation. He said that the project "Social Enterprise Incubation Model for Canyou" was organized by Shenzhen Canyou Group and Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation. In the past ten years, there are two data for the development of Canyou, one is that it has not taken a single subsidy from the government's livelihood department, and the other is that it has not applied for a bank loan. From one computer for five Canyou when it was founded in 1999, the company has grown to include a charitable foundation, four non-profit organizations and 23 high-tech branches of Canyou, with 1,200 Canyou in high-tech employment. Since 10,000 disabled college students graduate every year in mainland China, families support more than five times the material and spiritual support of ordinary families to pay for their schooling, but almost all of them can't find a job. This motivation and demand prompted Handicapped Friends to extend the successful model of high-tech employment for the disabled explored over the past ten years to the whole country, opening local Handicapped Friends across the country and solving the problem of employment for the disabled in each place locally. Since the implementation of the project, 25 social enterprises have been opened in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, solving the high-tech employment of 1,162 Canyou.Canyou's innovation is worldwide
After a grueling day of selection, Mr. Yu Keping, Deputy Director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (CCTB), announced the winners of the Winner's Prize and Nominee's Prize, respectively, following closed-door deliberation by a panel of expert judges.
Mr. Xu Yongguang, the judge, said that the reason why the Canyou Social Enterprise Incubation Project impressed all the judges is that the innovation of Canyou is world-class, and Canyou is not only the most successful social enterprise in China, but also very good when looking at the world, if Yunus's Bangladesh Rural Bank is the first, Zheng Weining's If Yunus' Bangladesh Rural Bank is number one, Zheng Weining's Canyou is number two in the world.
Mr. Zheng Weining, the founder of Canyou, delivered a speech as the representative of the winner of the award, he said, Canyou is a platform for people with disabilities to realize their self-esteem, and its innovation is the ability to integrate resources where there are no resources, and the rise of Canyou is based on the innovation of the world, China and the society of Shenzhen, and without the The advent of the new technology era, the 30 years of business development in China, Shenzhen's good policies for social organizations, and Shenzhen's fellow volunteers and social workers. This award belongs to them too.
It is worth mentioning that before winning the China Social Innovation Award, in 2010, the project "Social Enterprise Incubation Model for People with Disabilities" had already won the "Spirit of Innovation Award" in the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Before winning the China Social Innovation Award, in 2010, the "Social Enterprise Incubation Model for People with Disabilities" project had already won the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, and the "Spirit of Innovation Award", and the first China Poverty Reduction Innovation Award.
About China Social Innovation Awards
The establishment of social innovation awards has become a common practice in the international arena, with the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India and other countries having similar awards named after "social innovation". The "China Social Innovation Award" is the first academic award named after "social innovation" in China, jointly initiated by the Center for Comparative Politics and Economics of the Central Compilation and Interpretation Bureau (CCPIB), the Center for the Study of Innovation in the Chinese Government of Peking University (CSGI), and the China Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD) of Beijing, among others. The award aims to identify and encourage various types of civil society. The award aims at identifying and encouraging the innovative behaviors of various civil society organizations in solving social problems, meeting social needs, creating social value and promoting social progress, summarizing and publicizing the advanced experience of social innovation, and promoting and advancing social equity and good governance.
Attached is the list of winners.
Top 10 WinnersTop Ten Winners
1. "Love Parcel" (China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation)
2. "Mutual aid and production self-help network for ethnic minority HIV-infected people in remote areas" (Ruili Women and Children Development Center, Yunnan Province)
3. "Incubation Model of Social Enterprises for Persons with Disabilities" (Shenzhen Canyou Group, Shenzhen Zheng Weining Charity Foundation, Guangdong Province)
4. "Capacity Building for Participatory Governance in Urban Communities" (Beijing Dongcheng District Community Participation Action Service Center)
5. "Civil Society Gardener Action" (Amity Social Organization Cultivation Center, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province)
6. "Public Participation in the Creation of the 'Lotus Model'" (Huaihe River System Ecosystem Ecological and Environmental Science and Research Center, Shenqiu County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, referred to as Huaihe Guardian)
7. "Ecological Health Promotion in Rural Communities of Huaxi Township" (Research Society on Ecology and Poverty in the Daba Mountains, Tongjiang County, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province)
8. "'Guardian Angel' End-of-Life Spiritual Accompaniment" (Shanghai Pudong Hand in Hand Life Care Development Center)
9. "New and Old Citizens Building and Sharing Integration Model" (Ningbo Social Integration Organization Promotion Association, Zhejiang Province)
10. "One-on-One Student Aid" (Gesundheit Education Relief Society, Xining City, Qinghai Province)
Ma Hong, Director of the Shenzhen Civil Administration Bureau (back left) and Wang Ping, Chairman of the Yau Shing Foundation (back right) congratulate the Canyou.