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Donations from rich people can often attract the attention of the public, so whether it is Ma Yun and Ma Huateng in the Internet industry, or Wang Jianlin and Cao Dewang in the physical industry, they are all "big donors". Whenever businesses and entrepreneurs reach a certain height, charity becomes a must. From Chen Guangbiao's "violent charity" to today's dignity to the recipients. Sometimes we wonder, does mainland philanthropy need more money, or does it need a change of mind? Cao Dewang once said: "To give dignity to the recipient, you must thank him for giving you the opportunity to do charity."
So far, Cao Dewang's philanthropy has continued, and he once donated 140 million yuan to the public at a public health event, which is equivalent to donating 5% of the company's profits according to the company's performance at that time. In 2021, Cao Dewang donated 10 billion yuan to establish Fuyao University of Science and Technology without saying a word, the main purpose of which is to cultivate talents needed by society.
According to relevant information, Cao Dewang has donated for up to 39 years from 1983 to 2022. During this period, he also donated a total of 26 billion yuan to the public, which can be said to be a "scattered family wealth" type of external donation. Because of this, Cao Dewang has become a "great benevolent person" and "excellent charity entrepreneur" in the hearts of many people. According to the "China Top 100 Donors List" (2021), the listing threshold is as high as 30 million yuan, and the total donation amount is 69.724 billion yuan, of which only three donors of 10 billion yuan are cao Dewang.
Cao Dewang is passionate about philanthropy because he feels that charity can empty himself and let his heart really calm down and think about some problems. Recently, another rich "official announcement" donation of 14.88 billion yuan, the company will become China's largest private enterprise group, he is China's Internet industry super rich man - Liu Qiangdong.
With the end of the Spring Festival holiday, we are going to start a busy year again, and in this Spring Festival, Jingdong can be said to be radiant! With Alibaba and Pinduoduo disappearing, JD.com won the exclusive interactive partner of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, contributing a total of 1.5 billion yuan worth of red envelopes and physical objects during the Spring Festival Gala. According to the data, during the interaction period of the Spring Festival Gala Chinese New Year's Eve, the cumulative interaction volume of Global Chinese participating in Jingdong APP Red Envelopes reached 69.1 billion.
At the same time, Jingdong Logistics has directly turned the traditional Spring Festival off-season into a busy season, and when other platforms are still under the banner of "no closing" (in fact, logistics has been stopped for a long time), more than 200,000 first-line couriers under Jingdong Logistics are still sticking to their posts to escort the shopping needs of consumers across the country. What is even more surprising is that Liu Qiangdong not only spent 1.5 billion yuan on the spring evening, but also announced a huge donation on the second day of the Chinese New Year, which can be described as a big splash.
On February 2, JD.com announced that Liu Qiangdong, chairman and CEO of the company, will donate shares to a third-party charitable foundation. As of February 1, JD.com's shares were $75 per share, or the value of all the shares donated by Liu Qiangdong would reach $2.34 billion, equivalent to 14.8 billion yuan.
It is understood that this donation will be mainly used for liu Qiangdong's long-term attention to education, environmental protection and other social welfare undertakings. To talk about Liu Qiangdong's concern for public welfare, it is from 2003, when Jingdong began to do e-commerce, when Jingdong only had 38 employees, Liu Qiangdong adopted and donated 38 children in Jingle County, Shanxi Province, to fund their education as adults.
In addition, in February 2017, Liu Qiangdong donated 100 million yuan to Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, for education, culture, pension, poverty alleviation and other local public welfare undertakings; in June 2017, Liu Qiangdong donated 300 million yuan to Chinese University to set up the Chinese Min University Jingdong Fund; in April 2018, he donated 200 million yuan to Tsinghua University to support the construction and development of Projects such as Schwarzman College of Tsinghua University and tsinghua University's Global Ability Development Guidance Center.
And on January 17, 2022, JD.com announced that it will recruit more than 20,000 college graduates nationwide this year. Among them, Jingdong Logistics recruited more than 10,000 college graduates to reserve and cultivate grass-roots management talents. According to JD.com, in the past three years, JD.com has opened 358 jobs, providing nearly 40,000 jobs, and it is still increasing year by year.
In recent years, whenever Liu Qiangdong appeared on the front line of charity, there was always a voice mentioning Liu Qiangdong's early birth experience. In the eyes of netizens, the reason why Liu Qiangdong never forgets to help the people at the bottom is precisely because of his exceptionally difficult life.
In the 2021 List of China's Top 500 Private Enterprises, Huawei ranked first and JD.com ranked second, becoming the second largest private enterprise group in China, with annual revenue of more than 760 billion yuan, beating Alibaba (644.2 billion yuan). JD.com has also become China's veritable largest e-commerce giant, and Liu Qiangdong's goal of "bragging" to surpass Alibaba has really been achieved.
It is reported that Jingdong's total operating income in the first three quarters of 2021 reached 675.7 billion yuan. According to a conservative estimate of JD.com's previous operating income, the fourth quarter revenue will be at least 200 billion yuan. Therefore, JD.com's operating income in 2021 is at least 800 billion yuan. Previously, Huawei released a performance forecast showing that the annual revenue of 2021 was about 634 billion yuan, down 28.9% year-on-year, from which IT seems that JD.com is expected to become the largest private enterprise group in China.
A few days ago, the People's Daily pointed out in an article that Jingdong has made unremitting efforts to improve and strengthen accumulation in digital technology innovation, showing the endurance and determination of independent research and development, stimulating the determination and confidence of original innovation, making continuous breakthroughs in technological innovation, and vividly interpreting the "craftsman spirit" of new entity enterprises. Indeed, JD.com has 400,000 employees, 2,000 warehouses, and tens of thousands of JD stores around the world, making outstanding contributions to society from all aspects.
Cultivating more talents for the country, building a stronger scientific and technological system, and using science and technology to change life and get rid of poverty are the responsibilities and attitudes of this generation of entrepreneurs. Achieving "common prosperity" is not a task that can be accomplished by charity alone. As the saying goes, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish. If the industrial giants who became rich first can effectively drive poor areas out of poverty and move toward a moderately prosperous society, China will go further away from socialist common prosperity. While philanthropy in China still has a long way to go, we firmly believe that tomorrow will be better than today.