List of 100 most generous people released
By Liu Zhihua, China Daily, February 1, 2013
Beijing Normal University’s China Philanthropy Research Institute recently released a list of China’s 100 most generous people in 2012. Their charitable donations of more than US $10 billion, were more than 5 times that of the previous year, and were directed largely at education-focused projects. A large portion of these philanthropists had backgrounds in real estate, and almost 1/3 were from Guangdong.
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