In mid-June, the United States the richest man Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Warren took the lead in the United States issued a “donation commitment.” Invited to America’s richest people and families involved, the participants pledged to give away half of the property to charity. Although these oral wishes are not legally binding, but it is a “moral commitment.”
Later, Buffett and Gates began to personally lobby the “Forbes” list of 400 U.S. billionaires. Buffett said that, as of August 4, they are almost to 80 on the list a telephone call, and the results have a lot of money, the U.S. has assets of more than 1 billion of 40 rich man or a family commitment to donate more than half of property.
But the ambitions of Buffett and Gates are not limited to lobbying the United States, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Gates held a press conference that “I would also like to go to China to lobby.” Buffett told “The Wall Street Journal” in an interview, also said the timetable for their visit to be the end of September this year.
“The Wall Street Journal,” said Buffett hopes that other countries will rise in such activities, and determined to promote, but the reason they put this “donate Pledge” Campaign’s first overseas target research in China, and China in recent years the rapid growth of the rich are not without relevance.
In addition, the report said, China’s richest often indulge in luxury goods consumption, is relatively stingy social welfare charity, this is one of the reasons they chose China.
