China charity

China's charity cause, also has its own long tradition. Han and Tang Dynasties temple poor, disaster relief, medical care, warning of the carnage Zhangshengbushuai; Song pension Society of the cause of the Boom; medical aid the rise of yuan; private charitable groups in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of China's leading charitable history. Today the country is more open, emerged in groups of community leaders, celebrities, entrepreneurs, retired cadres for the flood, for the poor students at all for AIDS, the poor cataract patients, quietly engaged in charitable aid. Statistics show that at least half of the rich and demand that their contributions and the amount of "confidentiality."

Right now the only people to get rich first return to the community difficult to less than satisfactory. Data released by the China Charity Federation, was donated by its 70 per cent are from abroad and Hong Kong and Taiwan, domestic rich and the donation is less than 15 percent. Last year, elected to all kinds of "philanthropist list" of 135 individuals, 985 million yuan of donations, approximately over 100 million U.S. dollars, with total assets of more than 10 million U.S. dollars of Chinese enterprises had donated the ratio of less than one percent. The 2000-2004 U.S. 50 largest philanthropists total contributions 65 billion U.S. dollars, an annual average of about 13 billion U.S. dollars. How the two countries is no comparable, but it also reflects their sense of social responsibility and public welfare in mind the gap? » At present the number of domestic charitable organizations lack, the ability to mobilize social resources are limited, the tax policy to encourage the lag, the charity does not sound laws and regulations, charitable organizations the credibility of the lack of control has become China's charity cause obstacles to development, and whether these problems "China Encyclopedia", as reflected in the "concept of charity" and have some connection? »

Charitable cause is a barometer for the economic development of the cause, but also adjust the gap between rich and poor balance device. Revenue through the market to achieve the first distribution of income through government regulation implementing the second distribution of the customs and moral influence, voluntary personal disposable income will be part or most of the donor community, is the Bukexiaoqu Third income distribution. It helps reduce polarization, weakened, "Chou Fu" psychological, is conducive to social harmony.