Billionaires with a wealth of billions have heard a lot of news, how much do you know about their donations?
According to a donation list released on the 6th, the love of local tycoons in Guangdong is also bursting. 10 Guangdong entrepreneurs donated more than 100 million yuan, and the total amount exceeded 16 billion yuan. 5 are still entrepreneurs in Guangzhou!
Is it charity to draw a little from your net worth? The bosses donate money beyond imagination. Those who come from rural areas and have high school education also donate more than a billion yuan, and their wealth has shrunk by 40%, so they donate a lot of money, come and see how your fellow countrymen donate money!
10 bosses in Guangdong donated 16 billion yuan
The rich are really rich and loving. According to the "2017 China Donation 100 Masters List", the total donation amount of the richest people on the list is 23.291 billion yuan (including the amount of committed donations). And large donations have become the norm, with a record high of 100 million yuan and billion yuan donations.
And the most generous shot is our rich people in Guangdong. According to statistics, there are 35 people on the list in Guangdong Province, of which 15 have donated more than 100 million yuan, donating a total of 13.976 billion yuan, ranking first in the country.
The most donated money is also the entrepreneur of Guangdong. Midea Group's He Xiangjian family topped the list with a donation of 6.79 billion yuan. Evergrande Group Xu Jiayin ranked second with 3.4 billion yuan. In addition, 10 of the top 20 on the list are Guangdong bosses, with a total donation of more than 16 billion yuan. Among them, there are 5 bosses from Guangzhou, praising them.
Real estate owners donate the most money
Among the richest people who donated money, the largest number of people engaged in the real estate industry was 32. The number of people engaged in manufacturing ranked second.
Where do the local tycoons donate money? Poverty alleviation and education are the most invested areas. In 2017, Baijie donated 5.6 billion yuan in donation funds, ranking first in the field of donation receiving, of which Xu Jiayin donated a total of 3.4 billion yuan to support poverty alleviation in Guangdong and Bijie City in Guizhou, which was the highest amount of donation in the field of poverty alleviation in 2017. At the same time, 5.537 billion yuan of donations flowed to the field of higher education, exceeding 5 billion yuan for the second consecutive year, mainly to support the soft capacity building of universities such as talent training, discipline development and related scientific research cooperation.
These Guangzhou bosses, some of them are from peasant backgrounds
Maybe the philanthropists in your impression are all local tycoons from famous backgrounds, and they can donate money by signing a letter. But in fact, many of the donation experience is quite story-like, these big donors in Guangzhou, several are from farmers, and some even dare to spend a lot of money when their wealth is greatly reduced.
[Zhu Mengyi: 1.1 billion yuan donated by shrinking his net worth】
Zhu Mengyi of Pearl River Real Estate is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hopson Chuangzhan Group Limited and the CEO of Pearl River Real Estate. Born in an ordinary farming family in Liuhuang Town, Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, he grew up in a construction site and began to go out as a teenager, with only high school education. However, because of his business acumen, his wealth quickly accumulated, and he was also listed in the top 500 of the 2015 Forbes Chinese Rich List.
Zhu Mengyi has rarely appeared in front of the media. However, he has made many donations throughout the year, including education assistance and poverty alleviation, and is also one of the township sages with a huge donation to teaching in Meizhou. During the period from 2008 to 2009, Zhu Mengyi's assets in 2009 shrank from US$1.5 billion to US$900 million due to the "Huang Guangyu case" of Gome Electrical Appliances, and his company sharply laid off employees, and many projects sharply reduced prices. According to the 2009 Hurun Charity List, he still donated 1.15 billion yuan that year, ranking third in the country.
According to the list, Zhu Mengyi donated 110 million yuan in 2017 for poverty alleviation in Guangdong.
【Shum Zhaoxiong, Li Yiping: CUHK alumni donate 100 million】
The couple became $1 billion billionaires in 2017. Shum is the founder and head of the Times Real Estate Group, and Li Yiping is a director of the group. The Group is headquartered in Guangzhou. Li Yiping's public image has always been committed to charity, because of a fundraising by colleagues in the company that year, she established the Times Real Estate Public Welfare Foundation. According to the 2014 Hurun Rich List, the couple's net worth shrank by 40% in two years, but they still donated more than 46 million yuan that year, ranking 35th in the Hurun Charity List.
Last year, Mr. and Mrs. Li Yiping donated 100 million yuan to Sun Yat-sen University to set up the Sun Yat-sen University Times Development Fund. Li Yiping herself is an alumnus of Sun Yat-sen University, graduating from the foreign language department of the university in 1991. Last year, Sun Yat-sen University accepted 253 million yuan in donations from alumni, and it can be said that a large part of it was done by this alumni.
[Huang Wenzai: Once spent 100 million yuan to buy paintings and donate them to the Forbidden City]
Huang Wenzai, the boss of Guangzhou Star River Company, is an authentic Guangzhou native. Since about 2011, he has been at the top of various charity lists, and most of them are used for poverty alleviation in Conghua areas. In 2011, he donated 240 million yuan a year, ranking in the top ten of the Hurun Charity List for the first time. In March of that year, Huang Wenzai donated 120 million yuan to lion elephant village in Lutian Town, Conghua to support the construction of new rural areas. After that, another 81 million yuan was donated to the poverty alleviation construction of Conghua Liangkou Town. According to media statistics, its total donations over the years account for 2% of its wealth. In 2017, he donated another 120 million yuan for poverty alleviation in Guangdong.
Huang Wenzai also indirectly donated 100 million yuan to the Forbidden City. In 2016, the painter Cui Ruzhuo had a 60-meter painting long scroll, which he left for his daughter, Huang Wenzai wanted it very much, Cui Ruzhuo said, since this is the case, you take 100 million, I donated it to the Forbidden City, so there was this amazing personal donation.
【Su Zhigang: Selling pork to make a fortune, donating more than 100 million yuan a year】
Su Zhigang was born in an ordinary peasant family in Dashi Town, Panyu, made a fortune by selling pork, and is now the chairman of Chimelong Group Co., Ltd., with an annual revenue of more than 3 billion.
Perhaps because of the relationship between farmers, Su Zhigang's donations to poverty alleviation and disaster areas are more frequent. In 2014, he donated 18 million yuan for poverty alleviation, ranked 83rd in the Furun Charity List that year, and was once named "Yangcheng Charity Advanced Individual Philanthropist". In 2017, he donated a one-time donation of 100 million yuan for poverty alleviation in Guangdong.
In addition, because he often deals with animals, he also donates a lot to animal breeding. In 2008, it donated 8 million yuan to the Sichuan Wolong Giant Panda Center, and in 2015, donated 10 million yuan to establish a special fund for the protection of white dolphins.
Guangzhou Reference Guangzhou Daily Editor: He Chao's partial information according to China News Network, Securities Daily, Forbes China