综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

Opinion / Op-Ed Contributors

Charity cleanup leads tycoons to donate more

By Xin Zhiming (China Daily) Updated: 2014-11-05 07:54

Charity cleanup leads tycoons to donate more

China's richest person is also the highest donor to charity, according to report by China-based luxury magazine publisher Hurun. It reflects the growing interest of wealthy Chinese in charitable causes.

Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, became the country's richest person this year, according to Forbes. With a total wealth of $25 billion (by Hurun estimates), Ma has donated $2.4 billion to the charity foundation he and his colleague Cai Chongxin have set up.

It may be a coincidence that Ma has become China's richest person and top philanthropist at the same time, but there is little doubt that the country's richest people are becoming more altruistic. According to this year's Hurun philanthropy list, the average donation by the top 100 donors was 200 million yuan ($32.5 million), or 3.6 times that of last year, an almost unprecedented growth rate.

Rich Chinese are known to maintain a low profile and often shun charitable activities - so much so that in 2010, the top two American magnates-turned philanthropists, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway head Warren Buffett, had to travel to China to persuade local tycoons to donate more to charity.

The explosive growth in donation this year is important especially because it signals growing public confidence in charity after the scandals involving some domestic charity foundations in recent years. In 2011, for example, Guo Meimei, a young woman claiming to have connections with Red Cross Society of China, the major government-controlled charity organization, posted clips online showing off her luxurious lifestyle, which aroused public suspicion that she was squandering the money donated to the society by people. Although Red Cross later denied the charges and Guo herself confessed after being arrested for soccer gambling that her money had nothing to do with the society, many people tended to sigh away from charity organizations.

As a sign of such dented public confidence, many rich people, including Jack Ma, have started their own charity funds.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

...
梅州市| 凌源市| 桐梓县| 宁强县| 丰顺县| 麦盖提县| 正蓝旗| 荆门市| 澄江县| 磐安县| 涡阳县| 巴东县| 罗甸县| 琼结县| 西丰县| 兴山县| 宜黄县| 宁海县| 龙海市| 京山县| 彭泽县| 三都| 云安县| 武城县| 临沂市| 江华| 北宁市| 潜江市| 渭源县| 二连浩特市| 郑州市| 黎平县| 朝阳区| 岱山县| 漯河市| 济南市| 内乡县| 崇礼县| 格尔木市| 罗江县| 建昌县|