The award ceremony for the 18th China Charity Ranking is held on May 20 in Qingdao City in East China's Shandong Province. 

The 18th China Charity Ranking was released on May 20 in Qingdao City in East China's Shandong Province. The China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) was honored to be the "Annual Model Fund in 2021" at the event.

The CCTF has extensively responded to social needs and transmitted people's love, with a total annual income of 421 million yuan (US $65.13 million) and a total expenditure of 416 million yuan (US $64.35 million).

During the poverty alleviation campaign and the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the CCTF implemented anti-epidemic rescue operations and projects such as the Spring Bud Project, Hello Kids Charity Program, Happy Homes for Children and New Parent Academy/National Online Parent School.

It has solved various problems faced by rural children whose parents work away from home and children facing predicaments, benefiting more than 2 million children.

The China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) is honored to be named the "Annual Model Fund in 2021" on May 20 by the China Philanthropy Times, a state-owned news agency that reports on charity work in China. 

In this year's China Charity Ranking, a total of 15 public fundraising foundations and 15 non-public fundraising foundations were awarded the title of "Annual Model Fund in 2021." Their business covers poverty alleviation, education promotion, medicine and healthcare, industry promotion and other fields, which effectively contributed to charity work.

During the event, the Annual Report of China's Philanthropy Development (2020) was released, which gave a panoramic description of China's charity work in 2020.

On the basis of the release of the list, the event also paid tribute to the philanthropists, enterprises, projects, celebrities and role models contributing to China's charity work.

The China Charity Ranking has been published for 18 consecutive years since 2004, the data of which is mainly derived from six aspects: donation data released by government departments, data provided by donors, donation data accepted by public welfare organizations, data published in annual reports of listed companies, donation data publicly reported by the media, and public welfare archives data of the China Philanthropy Times.

As of 2020, the list had recorded large donations from 2,689 philanthropists and 7,084 charity enterprises, with a total donation amount of nearly 200 billion yuan (US $30.93 billion), and it is known as the "charity list for wealthy people in China."