Walmart China is committed to operating responsibly, and creating shared value for our customers, associates, suppliers, and communities through our social and environmental sustainability efforts.
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 efforts in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability are widely recognized in China. Some of our most recent awards and honors are:
The “Produce from Her Village” Empowerment Training Program was selected for the “2023 Seeking Public Welfare Innovation Pioneers – Project Case Library” compiled by the Public Welfare Times.
Named "2023 Golden Axe Public Reponsibility Company" in the 2023 NetEase Capital Market Forum organized by Shanghai Institution for Finance & Development, NetEase Finance and NetEase Finance Think Tank
Outstanding contributions to the 20-year development of the Humanitarian Aid Project of the China Foundation for Rural Development
“Outstanding Contribution to Poverty Alleviation” recognized by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
Recognized as “2021 Charitable Enterprise” by One Foundation
Named “Rural Revitalization Pioneer Enterprise” at the 2021 Responsible China Annual Ceremony hosted by Southern Metropolis Daily
Among Top 45 of “2016 to 2020 Excellent Cases of Poverty Alleviation by Foreign-Owned Enterprises” by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, and School of Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
The “Poverty Alleviation Action” Member Certificate presented by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment
“Outstanding Partner for Poverty Alleviation” award from One Foundation
"Outstanding Contribution Award" from the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
Walmart China's most important community support work includes the following:
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.

In 2023, the Walmart Childhood Guardian Project was jointly launched by Beijing All in One Foundation, the Girls Protection Fund of the China Foundation of Culture and Arts for Children, as well as Walmart China. The project aimed to raise children's awareness of self-protection and keep them safe from sexual assault, while also increasing society's attention and vigilance towards the prevention of child sexual abuse. The Walmart Childhood Guardian Project, funded through donations from Walmart China and fundraising among employees and customers, provided 153 anti-sexual assault education classes to 7,378 children in Yunnan's Wenshan, Yuxi, and Pu'er communities, and donated 1,000 personal care packages to five elementary schools.
In 2024, the Walmart Childhood Guardian Project was upgraded to the "Growing Together with Walmart" project. The project was jointly launched by Walmart China and Beijing All in One Foundation, offering education on self-protection and puberty education to elementary and middle school students in the remote regions of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. Walmart China also worked with partners including Dove, Darlie, Lux, Nice Princess, and Shanghai Soap to provide personal care packages to students, supporting their healthy development.
By the end of 2025, the initiative has given 442 lessons in Yuxi, Yunnan and Zunyi, Guizhou, benefiting 23,568 students (10,553 girls, 11,583 boys and 1,432 parents). It distributed 14,177 “Gril's Protection” handbooks, 7,092 puberty education manuals, and 12,500 "Growing Together with Walmart" personal care kits.
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.

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.

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.

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