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Carrefour policy helps farmers

French multinational retailer Carrefour said, in its latest corporate social responsibility report released in June, that it continued to make progress linking Chinese farmers with supermarkets worldwide, to provide customers with agricultural products of good quality at low prices. The group said it had over the last few years established 37 food safety laboratories in China and provided job opportunities to students from many Chinese universities. The retailer said it had also organized training classes for employees on subjects including purchasing, storage and the sale of fresh food, including fish, vegetables, fruit and grains.

Free train ride for Oroqen students

More than 600 students from Oroqen autonomous banner, an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, were given a free train ride to attend a college entrance examination in early June. The students traveled from their homes in Dayangshu town, where many Chinese ethnic groups live, 130 kilometers away to the town of Alihe where the tests were held. Harbin railways, which the pupils used, have served more than 20,000 students over the last 15 years with no reported accidents or complaints.

Big data platform targets children

China's first big data service platform targeting left-behind children, whose parents work far away from their hometowns, was released in June by the China Children and Teenagers' Fund and Beidou Aerospace Group. Liu Guisheng, chairman of Beidou Aerospace, said the platform would provide services including health monitoring and medical assistance based on the company's navigation technology. Boxes containing location devices are to be given to the kids for real-time communication with their parents via its online app. Funds of about 16 million yuan ($2.35 million) were donated for the project by eight companies.

Pregnant women go back to school

Pregnant women and their husbands from Guangdong province attended lectures about breast-feeding given by experts. The attendees received gifts including milk, infant clothes and weighing scales, at the non-profit event held by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co Hong Kong and the China Women's Federation. Similar events were held elsewhere, including in Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan province and Wuhan in Hubei province.

JD founder donates to uni

Liu Qiangdong, founder and CEO of JD Group, donated 300 million yuan ($44.1 million) in early June to Renmin University of China to help with the establishment of a campus in the Tongzhou district of Beijing. It was the biggest donation the university ever received since its foundation. The company said it also cooperated with the university in the field of artificial intelligence.

China Daily