HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, has become the first company to be awarded a special award for its contribution to the Bright Action Program, a project that promotes blindness prevention and provides eye disease treatment.

The program was initiated in 2003 by the National Blindness Prevention Guidance Group, an NGO under the guidance of the Ministry of Health.

Its first project, the HNA-Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 10-year Bright Action program, was started in Qinghai province in July 2004.