Founded in 1996 and registered in 2000 as a Hong Kong non-profit charity, the purpose of China Star Light Charity Fund Association is poverty alleviation and educational support in "old revolutionary base areas, minority inhabited areas, frontier areas and poverty stricken areas". The Association aims to help poverty-stricken areas develop economic self-sufficiency. This includes investing in local infrastructure projects, agriculture and livestock development projects, building hospitals and nursing homes, and improving other welfare facilities.