SHANGHAI, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings,
Inc. (the "Company" or "Yum China",
NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987) today launched its Digital Classroom
Initiative, a new CSR program to help students with limited access
to online education to learn coding and acquire essential digital
skills. Building on a successful pilot introduced in 2019,
Yum China has donated RMB 5 million to fund the Digital Classroom
Initiative, providing children in rural areas with access to
digital learning opportunities.
The launch ceremony was held at a primary school in Hunan province where local children will
receive new computer equipment and free instructor-led virtual
coding courses. To mark the official launch, Zheng Wenkai, Chairman
of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), Joey Wat, CEO of Yum
China, other Yum China
executives, and a representative from Leap Learner, a digital
education company, joined the ceremony and
distributed gifts and meals to students.
"At Yum China, our strong digital capabilities empowered
innovation and enabled us to remain agile and resilient in evolving
market conditions," said Joey Wat,
CEO of Yum China, during the launch
ceremony. "In collaboration with our partners, we want to bring the
transformational power of digital to children in underprivileged
areas, helping to engage, inspire, and prepare them with
much-needed skills to thrive in a digital world."
In China, many rural primary schools in remote areas not only
lack teachers with programming teaching experience, but also face a
severe shortage of modern computers and equipment, making it
difficult to provide computer programing education. In 2019, in
partnership with CFPA and Leap Learner, Yum
China started to explore creating digital learning
opportunities for children in rural areas. Starting in Gansu province, the Company donated computers
and established digital classrooms as part of its One Yuan Donation program, the Company's
signature nationwide community campaign. In 2020, Yum China expanded the pilot project to provide
remote instructor-led coding training to teachers from over 100
schools in Ningxia and Hunan
provinces. The training is designed to help the teachers to learn
coding and build fundamental knowledge needed to teach students and
support the next generation workforce.
"On behalf of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation,
I would like to thank Yum China and
Leap Learner for their trust and support of our organization. We
want to encourage more people and enterprises to take part in this
initiative, and contribute to the revitalization of rural education
and talent development," said Zheng Wenkai, Chairman of China
Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA).
In the past two years under the pilot program, teachers and
students have benefited greatly from the virtual training and
coding classes and have noted considerable improvements in their
digital capabilities. In 2021, over 100 schools in Yunnan and Henan provinces are expected to benefit from
the first roll-out phase, and in the future, Yum China plans to expand the program to cover
more rural areas across the country.
For more information about Yum
China's CSR activities, please visit
http://www.yumchina.com/respIndex
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About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China Holdings, Inc. is a licensee of Yum! Brands in
mainland China. It has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC,
China's leading quick-service restaurant brand, Pizza Hut, the
leading casual dining restaurant brand in China, and Taco Bell, a California-based restaurant chain serving
innovative Mexican-inspired food. Yum
China also owns the Little Sheep, Huang Ji Huang, East Dawning and COFFii &
JOY concepts outright. In addition, Yum
China has partnered with Lavazza to explore and develop the
Lavazza coffee shop concept in China. The Company had 10,725 restaurants in
over 1,500 cities at the end of March
2021. Yum China ranked # 361 on the Fortune 500 list
for 2020. Yum China has been named
the Industry Leader for the Restaurant & Leisure Facilities
Industry in the 2020 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. In 2021,
Yum China was named to the Bloomberg
Gender-Equality Index and was certified as a Top Employer 2021 in
China by the Top Employers
Institute, both for the third consecutive year. For more
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