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Xinhua - English: "Charity 'has much room for improvement'
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-07 21:37:10

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Over the last ten years, the average personal donation made by the Chinese population has been only 1.7 yuan (0.21 U.S. dollars), the China Youth Daily quoted a source with the Children's Foundation of China as saying on Monday.

'Charity in China has much room for improvement and the government should reduce tax on donations to encourage more giving from companies,' said Tian Di, director of the managing committee of the Foundation's minors' ideological and moral education branch.

No more than 100,000 Chinese companies, a mere one percent of the country's 10 million registered firms, have had a history in making donations to charity, according to the National Developmentand Reform Commission."