BASF brings joy to children in villages around China

Shanghai, China – June 11, 2019 – BASF today kicked off its annual social program in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The program offers hands-on and inspiring chemistry experiments, and donated books and stationery to children living in the local villages. Under the theme of “Grow with BASF”, the program covers six primary schools in five provinces including Fujian, Henan, Heilongjiang, Sichuan and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

“Supporting growers and local communities is part of our mission,” said Jackson Wang, Director, Business Management and Head of Local Business Unit, Greater China, BASF’s Agricultural Solutions division. “Through interesting experiments, we hope to cultivate students’ interests in science and let them learn how modern farming works nowadays. We want our next generation to be optimistic about their future and invite them to be part of future agriculture with us.”

The program, previously known as the Merivon^® charity program in 2018, was named after BASF’s renowned fungicide that helps growers control crop diseases and increase yields. BASF also runs other social initiatives in China’s rural areas, including providing 300 free training sessions on pesticide and distributing 10,000 BASF’s farmer safety kits to farmers annually. Since 2005, over 150,000 farmers have participated in the training programs.

As one of the major foreign investors in China’s chemical industry, BASF is committed to supporting local communities. In 2018, BASF invested a total of €38.4 million (approximately CNY 309 million) supporting social engagement projects worldwide, including not-for-profit activities and business-oriented projects. 

About BASF in Greater China

BASF has been a committed partner to Greater China since 1885. With larger production sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing, BASF is a major foreign investor in the country’s chemical industry, and operates the Innovation Campus Shanghai, a global and regional research and development hub. BASF posted sales of over €7.3 billion in 2018 to customers in Greater China, and employed 9,317 people as of the end of that year. For further information, please visit www.basf.com/cn/en

About BASF

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The approximately 122,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of around €63 billion in 2018. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.