King Long announced new
encouraging news in early 2018.
The 7th China Public Welfare Festival,
the most influential event in the charity field of China, was held in Beijing
on January 29-30. After winning two awards last year, King Long landed this year's "Responsibility Brand Award" during
the festival for its contributions in social responsibilities and public
welfare.
China Public Welfare
Festival was launched in 2011. It is the first festival in the country that is
jointly initiated by the mass media and named after "public welfare".
Since its launch, it has become a bridge to drive the development of public
welfare undertakings.
The festival attracts a
large number of distinguished guests from business, politics, academia, media,
and arts and culture. Many celebrities including Chiling Lin, Jimmy Lin, Pan
Xiaoting, Shang Wenjie, Jing Tian, Yang Mi and Nin Jing have served as
promotion ambassadors for the festival. This year's public welfare festival has a lineup as strong as
that of previous festivals. Celebrities such as Zhai Tianlin and Wen Zhaolun
offered substantial help at the scene.
King
Long won the important honor of "2017 Responsibility Brand Award" at
the most authoritative and credible ceremony for
its well-earned brand reputation, strong sense of social responsibility and
fruitful charity undertakings.
In 2017, King Long shouldered its responsibility as a corporate
citizen, and, with a series of innovative actions, pioneered in China's
passenger bus industry and drove its progress. At the same time, it continued
to devote itself to public welfare and make contributions to society.
Now, let's take a look at King Long's social responsibility
actions and public welfare undertakings for 2017:
Longwin II
Represents China's Push to Manufacture High-End Buses
In
May 2017, Longwin
II was introduced. Longwin II is
designed to be an international first-class high-end passenger bus brand. It manifests the self-confidence of China's passenger bus manufacturing
industry and represents China's push to manufacture high-end buses.
The
birth of Longwin
II proves to the world that China's passenger buses have not only the world's
largest sales volume, but also a capacity for manufacturing high-end passenger
buses as superior as first-tier international brands.
Apolong Pilot
Incorporates Smart Network into Public Transportation
In 2017, King Long and Baidu
made joint efforts in commercial driverless vehicles, taking a milestone step on the way to unmanned passenger
buses in China.
The cooperation between Baidu Apolong and King
Long fulfilled the vision of safe, convenient and orderly public travel in
2018, promoted the rapid adoption of automatic driving technology and took a
big step towards intelligent, shared and networked public transport in China.
King Long
Blue—an Azure
City Sky
As a response to the worsening haze problem in cities, the
"King Long under the Blue Sky" program launched by King Long promoted
the concepts of health and green environment through public sports events such
as Xiamen Marathon and passed on the concept of green and low-carbon travel.
At the same time, the program safeguards urban blue sky with
practical actions. King Long has 20 years of experience in the R&D and
manufacturing of new energy buses. King Long new energy products have achieved
full coverage from hybrid to pure electric power and fuel cells, from medium
and large buses to light buses and various types of special vehicles, bringing
a "Blue" solution to every market segment.
Library Buses Ignite Hopes and Dreams
Starting
from 2016, King Long and Xiamen Red Cross launched the "King Long Mobile
Library" project. Surplus library resources in cities are transported to
remote mountainous areas using King Long library buses, providing a stable flow
of book resources for local children who urgently need to read.
King
Long library buses were welcome by children in Ruijin, Jiangxi
Children
in Guyuan, Ningxia are reading books delivered with King Long library buses.
Since the introduction of King Long Mobile Library, it has
received extensive attention and support from all walks of life. China
Communications News and Grimm's Fairy Tales have
become powerful caring partners of children. Up to now, King Long has donated 11 library buses and over 100,000 love-carrying books
to many regions of the country, covering tens of thousands of kilometers,
bridging the gap between urban and rural areas, providing love-carrying books
for children in nearly 300 schools in Ruijin of Jiangxi, Guyuan of Ningxia,
Fuping of Shaanxi, Huaxi of Guizhou and Hailar of Inner Mongolia, and igniting
their hopes and dreams.
In the next 30 years, China, as the world’s second-largest
economy, will assume a great responsibility in the world.
As a leading company in manufacturing passenger buses, King Long
will shoulder greater responsibilities, take the lead in innovation and give
assistance to public transportation.