(26 September 2011, PARIS) The opening ceremony of exhibition of objects from Chinese Emperors at Musée du Louvre of Paris in France, sponsored by Fosun Group (“Fosun”), was officially held at 7:00pm Paris Time. Over 500 guests, including the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in France, the French ambassador, the Minister of Culture in France, Fosun, and representatives from other patron enterprises, attended the opening ceremony.

Titled “The Forbidden City at the Louvre, Chinese Emperors and French Kings- exhibition”, the exhibition displayed several objects from China created between the years 1688 and 1766, and attracted over 3,600 celebrity visitors from different walks of the French society on the first day of beta exhibition. Fosun sponsored €200,000 to the event.

“In the era of economic globalization, China’s rapid-growing enterprises are reaching out to the world in moves that have established a trend and captured eyeballs from different geographies. While facing the world, Chinese enterprises should not confine themselves to economic benefits. They should extend their care to corporate social responsibilities and the blending of cultures. Fosun’s patronage illustrated our respect to French culture and endorsement to cultural exchange efforts between France and China. With Fosun’s unique investment model of ‘combining China’s growth momentum with global resources’, we adhere to our corporate mission of ‘Forging Growth Powers’. We hope to pay tribute to cultural plurality and express our support in transnational cultural exchanges through this patronage,” said the representative of Fosun.

"We express our sincere gratitude for Fosun’s support to the Louvre Museum as well as their respects to and efforts in propelling Chinese-French cultural exchanges. In the recent years, we have achieved fruitful results in the cultural exchange between China and France, such as the partnership with the Forbidden City. The great exhibition ‘Napoleon and the Louvre’ presented there in 2008 was very successful.  We welcome the generous support and help from Chinese enterprises to the French culture and hope to develop long-term strategic collaborations with them,” said the representative of Musée du Louvre Museum.

For years, Fosun has been committed to fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities. For the past two decades, it has donated nearly RMB600 million in aggregate to various projects involving education, culture, disaster-relief efforts, and entrepreneurial projects by young entrepreneurs. Following the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, in 2008, Fosun swiftly mobilized its staff and subsidiaries to raise funds and delivered drugs to the disaster-stricken areas, with donations equivalent to over RMB40 million. When earthquake and tsunami stroke Japan in 2011, Fosun donated RMB5 million to frontline rescue forces of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and their families. In the recent years, Fosun also sponsored various art and cultural projects of the Shanghai Symphony, Wu opera of Zhejiang, Woodcrafts of Dongyang, and Chen’s Taichi Club.