A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen Guangbiao urging the Chinese government to keep its hands off people’s pocketbooks has attracted many supportive comments from...
A recent donation from a medical non-governmental organization (NGO) to the Beijing municipal and Chinese central governments has raised eyebrows and prompted online discussion about the legality of a medical charity...
Once fêted at home and abroad as an emblem of China’s rising power, Alibaba has fallen on hard times. Spin-off Ant Group’s IPO was blocked at the eleventh hour by Xi Jinping’s personal fiat. Founder Jack Ma has all but...
A recent high-level Party meeting in Beijing has called for the more equitable distribution of wealth in Chinese society, possibly portending significant changes to the country’s economic and social systems. According to most...
Lawmakers approved a new charity law on March 16, the closing day of China’s top national...
Charity donations have lagged behind the overall accumulation of wealth in China, in no small part...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper on fiscal policy and income inequality in China...
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, is creating “one of Asia’s largest philanthropic...
At the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in Hainan on Sunday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates argued that...
The Seattle Times describes the efforts of Yang Lan, one of several “Chinese Oprahs”, to build a US-style culture of philanthropy among China’s rich: China is second only to the U.S. in the number of...
Lenovo President Liu Chuanzhi surprises Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin with a question about his accumulated wealth and his father’s revolutionary past.
The much-discussed dinner for Chinese millionaires hosted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett happened last night in a chateau on the outskirts of Beijing. From Today Online: Mr Buffett and Mr Gates, who have already persuaded 40...
Reuters reports on the dinner for China’s millionaires hosted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will host a dinner for a select band of Chinese billionaires on Wednesday to promote giving,...
The Washington Post reports that a few of China’s billionaires got cold feet and backed out of a dinner with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, during which the two planned to encourage philanthropic giving among the rich: As...
The Globe and Mail profiles Chinese billionaire Yu Pengnian who donated the bulk of his wealth to a foundation for philanthropic purposes: In a stunned China, the question came quickly: Wouldn’t his children be angry that he had...
The China Foundation Center was launched last week. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time China blog, it “aims to help increase the transparency of Chinese charitable groups”: Some of China’s most...
Chris Carothers and Kersten Zhang write on the new Beijing Normal University One Foundation Philanthropy Research Institute, the first of its kind in China. From the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Blog: For the past...
China Media Project translates an editorial by Guo Yukuan which appeared, and then disappeared from, the Southern Metropolis Daily. In the editorial, Guo questions whether Niu Gensheng, founder of Mengniu dairy corporation,...
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