U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Group has signed an agreement with China Chain Store & Franchise Association in Nanjing to set up an education fund in China.

China's first mobile phone platform for blind people has been formally launched via Baidu.com's search engine open platform, aiming to help the blind make phone calls, send messages, and even surf the mobile Internet more easily.

Jack Ma, founder, chairman and CEO of China's e-commerce company Alibaba Group, has announced that beginning in 2010 the company will earmark 0.3% of annual revenue to environmental protection, particularly on water and air quality improvement projects.

China Mobile Charity Foundation, the first fundraising foundation within China's telecommunications industry, has been unveiled in Beijing.

Lin Jialai, vice director of the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, is pushing for Chinese companies and individuals to donate their used computers to schools in rural areas.

The Jet Li One Foundation has jointly launched an online donation platform with Tencent to help Internet users in China make monetary contributions.

Chinaedu.com, an affiliate of Hongcheng Education Group, has donated eight sets of education resources to Spring Rain Project and launched eleven aid stations to assist in China's rural education.

Chinese PC maker Asus and the China Association for Science and Technology have jointly announced plans to build popular science libraries, and Asus will invest CNY50 million in the next five years to build 1,000 popular science libraries around China.

China Mobile, one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, has just published its corporate social responsibility report for 2008.

Toshiba Group has released the Chinese edition of its "Toshiba Group – Social Responsibility and Environmental Report 2008", the fourth Chinese corporate social responsibility report for the group.

CharityInChina.org is working with XZList to promote the use of email list management to non-governmental organizations and charities operating in Greater China.

Microsoft (MSFT) says it will increase its investments in China next month by donating two fully equipped InfoWagons, open a Partners in Learning school, launch a Family Education PC program for rural communities in Miyun county outside Beijing, and provide digital literacy content and training in libraries and iCafes across Xinjiang.

Zheng Jie, president and general manager of China Mobile Shanghai, completed a 200-meter relay of the Olympic torch on May 23 heralded by a cheering team made up of Shanghai Mobile's employees and members of Shanghai Cancer Recovery Club.

LG Group says it has donated CNY17 million to Sichuan earthquake area through the Red Cross Society of China, of which CNY7 million is intended to be given to Sichuan Changhong, a main business partner of LG.

Following the earthquake in Sichuan, a number of foreign telecom operators have lent a hand for China's disaster relief by either donating money or offering other services.