for 6–10 years to help the children in poverty-stricken areas develop in an all-round way. Through the demonstration and scale effect of the project schools, the local education policy will be changed and the overall education level will be promoted. As of the end of 2017, the project received a total of RMB 23,132,600 in donations, and invested RMB 19.9992 million, of which RMB 14.615 million was received in 2017 and RMB 14.808 million invested. The project covered Weining County in Guizhou Province, Zhenxiong County in Yunnan Province and Longlin County in Guangxi Province, etc. in the three poverty-stricken counties, 24,653 students and 927 teachers benefited cumulatively. Rural Livelihoods The poverty-stricken and vulnerable populations of the old and the young in remote and poor areas, were in a disadvantaged position in the market competition due to lack of financial support, small scale of production, or inconvenient transportation, and it is slow for them to improve living quality. China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, in order to provide poverty-stricken areas and impoverished populations with opportunities for more development benefits in the market economy, actively provided credit services to poor households, strived to improve the basic production and living conditions in rural areas, helped establish rural cooperatives, and excavated local resources to build beautiful countryside, and linked markets to promote e-commerce poverty alleviation through innovation and development. Micro-finance Self-Reliance CFPA Micro-finance is a small and micro financial institution that focuses on the rural market. Its main purpose is to tailor the micro-finance, insurance, wealth management, e-commerce and other multi-directional services to those rural low and middle-income groups that cannot fully enjoy the services of traditional financial institutions, help them develop their industries, increase their income, and realize a better life as soon as possible. As of the end of 2017, CFPA Micro-finance Project covered 21 provinces across the country and had 258 branches, of which more than 70% are national-level poverty-stricken counties, and others were under-developed counties or earthquake-stricken counties. More than 2.07 million pieces of amounts and more than RMB 27.8 billion have been issued, which helped and supported more than 5 million rural households. In 2017, a total of 411,500 pieces of loans and RMB 8.623 billion were issued, average loan amount was RMB 20,953, 382,000 people were loan customers, the loan balance was RMB 5.94 billion, the average household balance was RMB 15,555, and the risk loan rate for more