The annual Charity Golf tournament presented by Grand Hotels Magazine and City Beats program on ICS has won unprecedented attention this year, as the first Charity Golf tounament organized by InterContinental Hotels Group.

The 1st IHG Shanghai Cluster Hope Classic Charity Golf tournament finished successfully on September 30, 2010 at Lake Malaren Golf Club Shanghai and has raised more than RMB 1000,000 for Project Hope to build 2 Hope Schools, one of them will be named as SRE GROUP LTD. .  Initiated and organized by China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), Project Hope is a public welfare undertaking extensively supported from home and abroad to assist dropout students and those at risk of dropping out to continue schooling in China’s rural, poverty-stricken areas. As one of the main partners of CYDF, IHG with all of its hotels have been working closely with the CYDF and raised over RMB 5 million to build 10 IHG Hope Schools since 2007.

“We are excited to be involved in the program that is dear to all of us and the event would not be complete without the support of our sponsors such as SRE Group Limited, among many others” said Mr. David Shackleton, Director of Operations, East China, IHG.

Grand Hotels Magazine and ICS would also like to take this opportunity to call on philanthropists and charitable organization in all sectors to participated in this act of charity, to offer help and care to the people in need.

每年，《大酒店》和“城市节拍”都会代领读者们观看每年的慈善高尔夫比赛，今年，是洲际酒店集团的第一届集团性地组织这项活动，尤其值得关注。

洲际酒店集团上海地区第一届希望杯慈善高尔夫精英赛在上海美兰湖高尔夫俱乐部完美落幕，此次活动筹集善款总数超过人民币1000,000元，将全部捐献给“希望工程”用于捐建2所希望小学，其中1所小学将以上置集团的名义冠名。“希望工程”是一项由中国青少年发展基金会发起和组织的大型公益活动，救助中国贫困农村地区的大量失学儿童，帮助他们继续完成学业。作为中国青少年发展基金会的主要合作伙伴，洲际酒店集团一直与中国青少年发展基金会积极合作，自2007年以来，洲际酒店集团旗下酒店通过各种方式筹集善款，现已经募得善款超过人民币5,000,000，在全国各地援建了10所希望小学，为青少年的基础教育、增强师资和改善教学环境而不懈努力。

洲际酒店集团华东区运营总监沈达文先生表示：“我们非常荣幸能够与中国青少年发展基金会再度合作。特别感谢上置集团有限公司和各位赞助商的慷慨和爱心。”

《大酒店》和上海外语频道也想借此机会号召广大慈善人士一起加入到慈善事业中，帮助更多的困难人士，用爱心关怀他们。