2020年4月2日，万科企业股资产管理中心（以下简称“万科企业股中心”）与清华大学教育基金会签署捐赠协议，代表万科人全体，将企业股中心的全部资产2亿股万科股票一次性捐赠给清华教育基金会，用于设立“清华大学万科公共卫生与健康学科发展专项基金”，万科将与清华大学一道，共建清华大学万科公共卫生与健康学院，世界卫生组织原总干事陈冯富珍将出任首任院长，万科创始人、董事会名誉主席王石出任学院理事会名誉理事长。

这一专项基金将在支持科研创新、奖励科研成果和引进人才等方面持续支持该学院的建设和发展。清华大学与万科集团将充分发挥各自优势，切实推进公共卫生领域人才培养、科学研究和政策制定，有力提升我国应对重大突发公共卫生事件水平，为增进人类健康福祉贡献力量。学院将按照综合、国际、高端的原则，充分发挥清华大学学科优势，创建教师跨学科合作和学生跨院系培养新模式和交叉协作新文化。预计设立预防医学、大健康、健康大数据、公共健康政策与管理四个国家亟需、面向未来的学科方向。

此次捐赠的2亿股万科股票当前市值约53亿元人民币，是目前国内对高校基金会的最大金额的单笔捐赠，更具意义的是，此次并非企业捐款，捐出的并非万科上市公司资产，而是员工集体捐赠。万科不会就此捐赠行为谋求任何商业利益或经济回报。

王石表示，这是全体万科人心愿达成的时刻。这笔资产，源于1988年股份制改革时留下的企业股，相当于员工集体股，是万科全体员工共同持有的资产，并于9年前经全体员工一致决定，将这笔财富贡献给社会公益事业。得益于万科持续稳健增长的业绩，这批企业股从32年前的520万，增值到9年前的9个多亿，再增值到今天的53亿，这是从1984年万科成立起，数十万万科人36年努力奋斗的共同成果和财富。今天我们把它全数捐赠给人类的公共卫生与健康事业，对于万科企业股资产来说，这是它最好的归宿。同时作为在深圳创立和发展起来的企业，王石希望清华大学万科公共卫生与健康学院，能积极参与并大力支持深圳市公共卫生事业的发展。

作为参与捐赠的万科全体员工的一份子，万科董事会主席郁亮表示，新冠疫情这场史无前例的全球公共卫生安全危机，让人类共同体如此息息相关、命运相连。每个人都无法置身事外，也无法独善其身，“活下去”成为非常真实的存在，我们每一个人都能真切感受到疫情抗击的艰难和挑战，也能切身体会到提高公共卫生发展水平的重要性。经历此次疫情，公共卫生与健康必然成为全球最受关注的课题之一，亟待研究攻坚。恰在此时，清华大学筹建公共卫生与健康学院希望得到万科支持，受万科企业股中心委托，我们迅速与清华大学教育基金会达成了共建清华大学万科公共卫生与健康学院的共识。“感君托高义，终不负初心”，能让这笔财富在社会最需要的时候做些有意义的事情，这是以创始人王石为首的全体万科人36年奋斗历程收到最好的礼物。█ 

Vanke employees，advocated by WANG Shi，donated 200 million shares to build Vanke School of Public Health with Tsinghua University

On April 2, 2020, Vanke founding shareholders’ equity management center (hereinafter referred to as the Center) and Tsinghua University Education Foundation signed a donation agreement. According to the agreement, the Center, on behalf of all Vanke employees, donated the entirety of its asset - 200 million Vanke shares - to Tsinghua University Education Foundation. It will be used to set up the Tsinghua University Vanke Pulic Health Discipline Development Special Fund. Vanke and Tsinghua University will work together to build the Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University. Margaret Chan, former Director-General of WHO will be the first Dean of the school and Mr. Wang Shi, founder and Honorary Chairman of Vanke will be the school’s Honorary Director

The special fund will be used to continuously buttress future development of the school by supporting research and innovation, rewarding scientific findings and bringing in needed talents. Vanke and Tsinghua will fully utilize their respective advantages, to effectively facilitate training of professionals, scientific research and policy making in the public health area, with the aim of significantly improving China’s ability to handle major public health emergencies, and contributing to the well-being of mankind. The school will take a comprehensive, international and high standard approach, give full play to disciplinary strengths of Tsinghua University, and create a new model of interdisciplinary cooperation by the faculty and inter-school cultivation of students, as well as a new culture of cross-functional collaboration. The school plans to set up four major fields - preventive medicine, “big health”, health care big data, and public health policy and administration. These four fields are believed to be essential for the country’s public health system in the future.

With the current worth of RMB5.3 billion yuan, the 200 million shares donated was the single largest of the kind to university foundations in China so far. What makes it more significant is that it was not a company donation. It didn’t come from Vanke as a listed company. Instead, it was collective donation by all Vanke employees, making this the largest single donation by employees of a company in the charity history of China. Vanke will not seek any commercial interests or economic returns with the act.  

Wang Shi said that this was the dream-come-true moment for all employees of Vanke. This asset originated from the equity stake in the firm put aside by founding shareholders in the corporatization process back in 1988. It is held by all employees of Vanke who nine years ago collectively and unanimously decided to donate it for charity purposes. Attributable to Vanke’s sound performance, the worth of this asset has grown from RMB 5.2 million 32 years ago, to 900 million 9 years ago and then to 5.3 billion today. This is a common achievement and collective wealth attributable to the hard work of tens of thousands of Vanke employees over the span of 36 years ever since 1984. Its donation today to the public health cause of the mankind is the best outcome for Vanke founding shareholders equity. At the same time, given that Vanke came into being and grew stronger in Shenzhen, Wang Shi expressed hope that Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University would take part in and generously support improvement of health care services in Shenzhen.

As one of the Vanke employees who made the donation, Chairman Yu Liang said, COVID-19 has caused an unprescedented global public health  crisis, bringing all human beings closely together as members of a community with shared future. No one is able to stay aloof or handle it alone. To stay alive becomes a real issue. Each and every one of us experiences hardship and faces challenges in fighting the virus. We have all come to realize the importance of higher public health standards. Public health will surely emerge from this pandemic as the most prominent subject globally. Much more critical research work needs to be done, and done fast. It is at this point that Tsinghua University expressed hope to receive Vanke’s support to build a school of public health. Entrusted by the Center, we swiftly reached agreement with Tsinghua University Education Foundation to build the school together.

With commitment to a lofty cause, one shall always stay true to his mission. The chance to use this asset for a meaningful cause, when it’s most needed, is the best gift for Vanke founder Mr. Wang Shi and all employees for 36 years of hard work.█