¡¡¡¡Charter of Shanghai Broadcasting and TV Publicization Special
Fund
¡¡¡¡Chapter One: General Principle
¡¡¡¡Article 1: Shanghai Broadcasting and TV Publicization Special Fund
(hereinafter referred to as the Fund) is a special fund authorized by and
subjected to Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.
¡¡¡¡Article 2: The Fund is aimed to arouse attention, support commonweal
publicization, promote the development and prosperity of commonweal
publicization of Shanghai, forge the civilized image of Shanghai and contribute
to developing commonweal publicization in China.
¡¡¡¡Article 3: The Fund is launched by Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and Shanghai
Oriental Star Cultural Development Co. Ltd. (SOSCD). The start-up fund is
provided by SMG. SMG and SOSCD are responsible for the management of the Fund.
¡¡¡¡Chapter Two: Mission
¡¡¡¡Article 4: The Fund shall, through various channels and measures, strive
after imbursement and contributions from organizations and individuals who show
great interests in the cause of culture art both at home and abroad.
¡¡¡¡Article 5: The Fund constructively promotes the development and the
prosperity of commonweal publicization of Shanghai, sponsors and supports
commonweal publicization, raises funds from the society for projects of
publicization and enhances communication and cooperation with national and
international enterprises and organizations.
¡¡¡¡Chapter Three: The Council
¡¡¡¡Article 6: The Council is an administrative, surveillant and authoritative
institution of the Fund and it consists of permanent council groups and other
council members or groups. Permanent council groups are shouldered by launching
groups and they are permanent members of the Council as well as the core
decision-makers of the affairs. One of the Trustee is to be shouldered by a
member of SHCDF. According to the contributions to the Fund, council members can
be added or dismissed.
¡¡¡¡Article 7: The Council has one Honorary Chairman, one Chairman, several
assist Chairmen, several Trustees and a Chief Secretary. The first term of
Chairman, assist Chairmen and Trustees are decided by negotiation of Council
groups; the Honorary Chairman is recommended by the Council. The Chairman
(including Honorary Chairman and assist Chairmen) is elected for a term of four
years, and can be re-elected.
¡¡¡¡Article 8: The functions and powers of the Council are:
¡¡¡¡1. To constitute and amend the Charter of the Foundation;
¡¡¡¡2. To elect the Chairman and Vice Chairmen;
¡¡¡¡3. To examine and approve the project plans submitted for grant and the
sums of grant;
¡¡¡¡4. To decide on financial assistance projects and examine the fulfillments
of the project plans;
¡¡¡¡5. To add or dismiss trustees;
¡¡¡¡6. To decide on other major issues of the Foundation.
¡¡¡¡Council groups perform the same as trustees by assigning representatives
(principally one each group except permanent council groups).
¡¡¡¡Article 9: Council meetings should be held at least once a year. Permanent
councils and more than one-third of the councils are able to propose to hold
temporary council meetings.
¡¡¡¡Before holding annual council meeting, the entire Council should be
informed 15 days beforehand; to hold temporary council meetings, the entire
Council should be informed 5 days beforehand. Informing doesn¡¯t have to be bound
to the limit under the circumstances of emergency and approval of permanent
councils.
¡¡¡¡Article 10: Council meetings are summoned and presided over by the
Chairman. If the Chairman cannot fulfill his administration, assigned assist
Chairmen or other councils by the Chairman are eligible for summoning and
presiding.
¡¡¡¡Article 11: Every trustee, council group and permanent council group has
but one vote in the Council. Common decisions should be made with half of the
Council approving. Decisions concerning Proceeding 1 to 5 of Article 8 cannot
pass unless two-third of the Council members approve. Each permanent council
group has one veto against any decisions.
¡¡¡¡Article 12: The Council should make meeting records of any decisions made
and all attendants should sign on the records.
¡¡¡¡Article 13: The Fund's daily work is presided by the Chairman. The Chief
Secretary is responsible for raising fund and daily management.
¡¡¡¡Chapter Four: Trustees and Others
¡¡¡¡Article 14: Representatives of organizations and individuals at home and
abroad can be approved to be members of the Fund as long as they accede to the
Charter, show great enthusiasm in the cause of nation's publicization and take
on some necessary assignments in the Fund.
¡¡¡¡Article 15: Trustees have the right to participate in and supervise all
kinds of work and to join all kinds of activities in the Fund. Also, they have
the obligation to abide by the Fund's Charter, to execute resolutions made by
the Council and actively accomplish the task assigned by the Fund.
¡¡¡¡Article 16: Financing of the Fund is sidelined by SHCDF. The Council is
entitled to consult anything about the increment of the Fund to SHCDF.
¡¡¡¡Under certain circumstances a supervisor can be assigned by SHCDF to
supervise the Council.
¡¡¡¡Chapter Five: The Fund
¡¡¡¡Article 17: The sources of the Fund are: funds for cultural activities
given by the government, contributions from individuals or organizations at home
and abroad as well as other legal incomes.
¡¡¡¡Article 18: The Fund is managed under the related requirement of Charter of
Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.
¡¡¡¡Article 19: The Fund is utilized in publicization-related items and
activities. The Fund can also be utilized in other culture and art activities as
well as items in accordance with the Charter under the circumstances of
abundance of the Fund and the approval of the permanent council groups.
¡¡¡¡Article 20: Any expense of the Fund should be approved by the Chairman in
the form of signature.
¡¡¡¡Article 21: The maintenance and increment of the fund are under the
supervision and management of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. The fund
can be deposited in the financial institutions to take in interests and can be
used to purchase bonds, but it cannot be used as venture investment. The
increment of the fund is in the possession of Shanghai Cultural Development
Foundation.
¡¡¡¡Article 22: The Fund abides by the related finance system, audit system and
social supervision system of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. The Fund
implements an independent system of accounting and account opening and reports
to the Council about the annual Budget and Final Account.
¡¡¡¡Article 23: When the sum of the fund£¨including fixed asset£©is less than
RMB100,000Yuan,the fund should be brought forward for accounting purposes. After
liquidation, the asset is still in the possession of Shanghai Cultural
Development Foundation, and the fund shall be disbanded simultaneously.
¡¡¡¡Article 24: When the sum of the Fund is unable to support publicization or
the Fund is facing liquidation, the problem should be mainly settled by
collecting money. The launching groups should be no longer responsible for
investing the Fund unless there are specific decisions made by permanent council
groups.
¡¡¡¡Chapter Six: Appendix
¡¡¡¡Article 25: The management, activities and utilization of the Fund is
regularly revealed on the website of SHCDF (www.shcdf.org).
¡¡¡¡The Council of the Fund should submit one regular written report once a
year to the trustees, council groups and permanent council groups.
¡¡¡¡Article 26: The Council is entitled the sole right to the interpretation
and amendment of the Charter.
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¡¡¡¡Stamp of the Launching Groups (and the Permanent Council Groups)
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Media Group
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Oriental Star Culture Development Co. Ltd.
¡¡¡¡Jan. 10th, 2005
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¡¡¡¡Suggested Roll of the Council
¡¡¡¡Permanent Council Groups:
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Media Group
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Oriental Star Culture Development Co. Ltd.
¡¡¡¡Honorary Chairman: Wang Zhongwei (suggested)
¡¡¡¡Chairman: Zong Ming(suggested)
¡¡¡¡Assist Chairmen: blank (suggested)
¡¡¡¡Trustees: Zong Ming, Li Baoshun, Li Ruigang, Li Hongwei, Guo Dakang, Bi
Gengxin, Ma Yanping, and Shen Genlin (the principal of SOSCD and the director of
SHCDF)
¡¡¡¡Chief Secretary: the principal of SOSCD (suggested)
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¡¡¡¡Application of Establishing¡°Shanghai Broadcasting and TV Publicization
Special Fund¡±
¡¡¡¡To Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation:
¡¡¡¡In order to arouse societal attention to and support for publicization, to
promote Shanghai¡¯s publicization, to forge civilized city image of Shanghai and
to contribute to publicization of China, we apply for the establishment of
Shanghai Broadcasting and TV Publicization Special Fund. The Fund is sponsored
by Shanghai Media Group and Shanghai Oriental Star Culture Development Co. Ltd.,
and RMB 500,000 is provided as the start-up fund by SMG. Those two groups are to
be the permanent council groups of the Fund. Shanghai Broadcasting and TV
Publicization Special Fund is subjected to SHCDF.
¡¡¡¡Please respond to the properness or improperness of the application.
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Media Group
¡¡¡¡Shanghai Oriental Star Culture Development Co. Ltd.
¡¡¡¡Jan 10th, 2005