On November 4, a 69-year-old elderly lady Liu Congying was sitting in the courtyard of her home (in Yanziwo Village, Lucheng of Yunnan's Chuxiong), basking under golden autumn sunlight. Lady Liu is a beneficiary of the ICBC charity event ""Lifeline Express - ICBC Spreading Brightness in Chuxiong". She has cataracts in both eyes for the last two years. Lady Liu, who hasn't been to Chuxiong since last year, was sent by the Party Committee of Yanziwo Village few days ago to receive free cataract surgery at the train hospital "Lifeline Express" stationed in Chuxiong. After the surgery, lady Liu said: "I'm very happy to see the tree in the distant at last!"

"China Lifeline Express" is a mobile train hospital in China dedicated to give free vision-restoring surgery to impoverished cataract patients living in the rural areas. On the train, reporter watched two eye doctors from Beijing University Third Hospital, Chen Huijin and Hong Ying with 10 years of eye surgical expertise, concentrating to perform operations on patients. Twenty three surgeries were planned on that day. Earlier, 88 patients have received the treatment successfully. The surgeries performed were complex because of the late treatment for patients here, said Dr. Chen. As related, the doctors were all volunteers to work in the mobile eye hospital. They will serve for three months in Chuxiong, giving treatment to patients and training to local doctors.

For this charity event, ICBC has donated RMB 3 million for 1000 poor cataract patients living in Yunnan's Chuxiong to receive vision-restoring surgery and the establishment of a local Cataract Treatment Center. The Center, with an aim to improve medical facilities and level of diagnosis, is a "Lifeline Express Never Runs Away". Since 2007, ICBC has donated more than RMB 10 million to vision-restoring charity. That included: the donation to subsidize 2000+ poor cataract patients from Sichuan and Guizhou to restore eyesight through surgery, and the set-up of Eye Microsurgery Training Center in Inner Mongolia. Nellie Fong Wong Ku-Man, the Founding Chairman of Chinese Foundation for Lifeline Express, wished to have more companies and individuals, like ICBC, joining this charity event entrusted with the heavy and long-term responsibility, lending support to millions of cataract patients in China's rural areas who live life in darkness because of poverty or inadequate medical conditions. The goal of the Foundation is to alleviate poverty and reduce blindness. Over the course of 14 years since establishment, the Foundation brings back vision to 120,000 impoverished cataracts patients, sets up 15 Eye Microsurgery Training Centers and 7 cataract treatment centers.

ICBC grows on the back of the support and concern from the customers and whole society, said an executive with ICBC. Socially ICBC is committed to "Origin from the community, give back to the community, serve the community" and concerned with the well-being of people. The Bank has sponsored many charity initiatives: disaster relief, poverty alleviation, cultural and education and environmental protection. Over the past few years, ICBC has donated more than RMB 400 million and set up a "green channel", offering free, fast and all-inclusive financial services for people to donate, cash or in-kind, to the disaster relief work, poverty alleviation program or charity.