Walmart China continues to pay attention to the sustainable development of local communities. We currently focus on efforts advancing children’s nutrition and health, women’s economic empowerment, and emergency disaster relief. We also encourage associates to actively volunteer and give back to the community. Walmart China’s most important community support work includes the following.

• Children’s Nutritious Meals Program

Since 2011, Walmart China has financially supported the “Children’s Nutritious Meals Program” of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), which has been renamed “China Foundation for Rural Development”. In 2015, the program was upgraded to a public fundraising campaign that has worked with customers, suppliers and associates to improve the nutrition of elementary school children in underdeveloped areas.  

Since 2011, Walmart China has supported the program with around RMB 18 million accumulated through corporate donations and fundraising activities involving customers, associates and suppliers. The program has benefitted about 55,000 children in underdeveloped areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Chongqing. It has provided 3.6 million portions of nutritious meals, equipped 93 schools with advanced kitchen facilities, and carried out nutrition knowledge education.

• Raise Her Business Plan

In 2010, Walmart China began to cooperate with China Women’s Development Foundation (CWDF) to set up the “Walmart Women’s Development Program” (the former “Walmart Women’s Development Fund”), supporting CWDF’s “Revolving Loans for Mothers Project”. The Project runs in the mode of “microloans and circulated funds”, aiming to help women in difficulties become employed or re-employed, or work as small business entrepreneurs.

In 2015, to adapt to the development of the Internet and digital economy, CWDF upgraded the “Revolving Loans for Mothers Project” to "Raise Her Business Plan". The project has incorporated the Internet mindset and has integrated the strengths of multiple parties for crossover cooperation and management innovations. Under “Raise Her Business Plan”, Walmart China continues to empower rural women through supporting the “Revolving Loans for Mothers Project”, women empowerment training,and a women entrepreneurship and employment service platform.

As of 2022, Walmart China had supported the “Revolving Loans for Mothers Project” with a total of RMB 17.64 million in revolving loans. The project had been implemented in 13 provinces, regions and cities, including Shaanxi, Hebei and Hunan, and has benefitted more than 17,300 rural women. In terms of women empowerment training, Walmart China and CWDF jointly launched the “Produce from Her Village”Training Project in 2022. The project, focused on live-streaming e-commerce, offered training on agricultural product development and live-streaming to 400 rural female entrepreneurs in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. These efforts helped rural women develop an omnichannel retail mindset, trained female entrepreneurs and built a healthy ecosystem supporting rural entrepreneurship and employment.

• Walmart China Women & Inclusion Leadership Committee (WIL)

Diversity and inclusion have been one of Walmart’s core values. Walmart China established the “Walmart China Women & Inclusion Leadership Committee (WIL)”, which aims to encourage, cultivate, and develop women’s leadership, promote gender equality, and create better development opportunities for more women. The sponsors of WIL are led by the CEO of Walmart China and composed of a number of executives including both women and men, who have provided strong support to the work of WIL.

Over the years, WIL has been regularly organizing activities to provide training and communication opportunities for female associates, helping them broaden horizons, carry out capacity building, expand professional and social networks, and participate in the company’s business plan-making processes. Both women and the men who support women’s career development are involved.

• Big Dream Achiever Program

In 2019, Walmart China and One Foundation launched the “Wal-Love Afternoon Tea” philanthropy project, providing work experience to young people with intellectual disabilities, such as those with autism. The project worked with these young people's families to help them integrate into society. Walmart China recruited associate volunteers to accompany, guide and encourage these participants. In 2020, the project was renamed “Big Dream Achiever”, and was upgraded from a half day work experience activity into a one-week work experience program at Walmart stores. The enhanced program provides youth with intellectual disabilities with hands-on experience in various positions in store operations, benefiting their future employment.

In 2023, the "Big Dream Achiever" program was further upgraded, with 16 regular store work experience sessions arranged for young people with intellectual disabilities at one hypermarket and two Sam's Clubs in Shenzhen and Chengdu. 

• Store-Level Voluntary Service

In addition to the voluntary service activities organized at the corporate level, Walmart China has leveraged its nationwide network and large workforce to actively participate in community development, and Walmart China outlets across the country have been proactively organizing various volunteer activities to serve local communities.

Since Walmart entered China in 1996, we have been actively involved in disaster relief, provided assistance and funding timely to support the reconstruction and development of disaster areas, for example, Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, Qinghai earthquake, Sichuan Ya’an earthquake, and Covid-19 epidemic. Our actions in the past three years include:

• In July 2021, Walmart China urgently coordinated the transfer of emergency supplies valued at "more than RMB 2 million" from Tianjin to Zhengzhou. Daily necessities including rice, flour, grains, oil and water, and anti-bacterial products including hand sanitizers and disinfectants were donated to local residents affected by the heavy rainstorm in Henan through the help of China Women’s Development Foundation, One Foundation and the subdistrict offices of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou City.

• In March 2020, in response to the public health crisis caused by COVID-19, Walmart and Walmart Foundation committed more than $1.5 million USD (approx. 10.44 million RMB) to support relief efforts in China.Since the beginning of the COVID-19 surges, Walmart China has been committed to community service and undertaken the responsibility as a retailer to provide timely essential supplies to residents in local communities. In addition, Walmart China, focused on caring for others, introduced innovative services including designated shopping time for elderly and customers with physical disabilities. Walmart China also provided supplies for the visually impaired and families with sick children.

• In June 2019, Walmart China donated 500,000 RMB to provide daily necessities like rice, flour and oil through One Foundation, to support disaster relief for Sichuan earthquake and floods in South China.

• In August 2017, Walmart China donated daily necessities worth of 500,000 RMB to support people impacted by the earthquake in Sichuan through the Sichuan Province Poverty Alleviation Foundation.

• 2016 summer, 26 provinces and thousands of counties were severely hit by storm and flood in China. Walmart has been highly involved in disaster relief. In June, Walmart prepared 300 sets of emergency life-kits to Jiangsu Yancheng within 24 hours which was hit by tornado; in July, Walmart quickly responded with 4.7 million RMB worth of disaster relief supplies; in August, Walmart Foundation donated 2 million RMB to One Foundation for disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction for flood stricken areas.

• In May 2016, on the 8th “National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day”, Walmart donated 7.8 million RMB worth of disaster preparation supplies to CFPA, including shoes, clothes, etc., to enrich the reservation of disaster preparation supplies of the foundation to support in-time emergency disaster relief.