(Shenyang, June 16, 2022) Hang Lung Properties Limited (SEHK stock code: 00101) (“the Company” or “Hang Lung”) announced a donation of RMB 400,000 to Shenhe District Government of Shenyang through the “Hang Lung COVID-19 Relief Fund 2.0” to finance 10 nucleic acid sampling stations for Health Bureau of the Shenhe District to enhance ongoing pandemic prevention and control measures and provide daily supply packages for communities in need through the Shenhe Charity Association. In attendance at the donation ceremony were Mr. Yuhang Lin, District Mayor of the Leading Party Members’ Group of the Shenhe District People’s Government; Ms. Qing Chen, Deputy District Mayor of the Leading Party Members’ Group of the Shenhe District People’s Government; Ms. Irene Shi, General Manager of Forum 66; and Mr. Kenith Kong, General Manager of Palace 66.
Mr. Yuhang Lin, District Mayor of the Shenhe District People’s Government, said, “I am grateful for the strong support of Hang Lung and other enterprises in the development of Shenhe District. Amid challenges posed by the pandemic, we stand shoulder to shoulder to overcome difficulties and usher a new phase of accelerated economic growth. In the future, the Shenhe District People’s Government will, as always, do our best in providing support for enterprises, making good use of policies to allow industries to thrive and offer the best environment for commercial growth and development.”
Mr. Weber Lo, Chief Executive Officer of Hang Lung Properties, said, “With this donation through the Hang Lung COVID-19 Relief Fund 2.0, we hope to help the local government further enhance local normalized nucleic acid testing, and provide care to communities in need. We will continue to pay close attention to the situation on the Mainland and take decisive action to support the fight against the pandemic.”
The donated nucleic acid sampling stations are equipped with positive pressure air and multiple filtering disinfection system devices to protect the health and safety of medical workers. The stations will be used in communities and commercial blocks with high populations in Shenhe District, to help improve the management of ongoing pandemic prevention and control measures in Shenyang. In addition, the donated supply packages are to alleviate the immediate needs of low-income families in the city.
Since the establishment of the “Hang Lung COVID-19 Relief Fund” in 2020, and including the current donation, Hang Lung has disbursed more than RMB 20 million to provide targeted support for urgent public pandemic countermeasures and for the most severely affected in our communities across Hong Kong and the Mainland, including an endowment of RMB 6 million for the establishment and operation of Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan in 2020, and donation of HK$ 6 million for financing the HKSAR government’s operation of “mobile cabin hospitals” earlier this year. In April, Hang Lung announced a further injection of RMB 3 million into the “Hang Lung COVID-19 Relief Fund 2.0” as a part of the ongoing fight against the pandemic on the Mainland, where funds have been deployed for the provision of health protection items and other necessities, among other initiatives, for those most affected by COVID-19.
