(Pas la même culture, les pauvres en Chine étaient mobilisés pour leurs malheurs dans les grands travaux, muraille de Chine, grands canaux, etc. Après chaque grand travaux, il n'y avait plus de miséreux, ils étaient tous morts. Non, je plaisante, mais, qu'à moitié. note de rené)

Why do people in China give so little to charity?

The Communist Party is too afraid of letting NGOs flourish

source : The Economist

Print edition | China

Sep 6th 2018| BEIJING

EVERY month the Longyue Foundation, a Chinese charity based in the southern city of Shenzhen, pays modest stipends to nearly 3,000 extremely elderly veterans of China’s war with Japan. In its early years the foundation got most of its money from a handful of supportive businesspeople, explains Luo Yangwei, one of its bosses. That changed in 2014 when it began soliciting donations online. Last year it collected about 46m yuan ($6.7m) from warm-hearted internet users, whose numerous small gifts amounted to almost nine-tenths of what it raised. This year it hopes to boost its total income by 10%.
Longyue is one of many charities hoping to benefit from an online fund-raiser run annually by Tencent, a tech giant, which ends on September 9th. During last year’s edition of the “99 Charity Day”, users of its WeChat messaging app gave 830m yuan to good causes (about as much as is raised biennially by “Red Nose Day”, a long-running British telethon). Tencent and its partners gave matching donations that brought the total to 1.3bn yuan.