ABSTRACT
Keywords: charity; Beijing Marathon; event; benefit
fund organization under the CCF, indicating the official start-up of China sports charities.
In this year, China’s sports circle participated in a number of charitable activities. For example, the State General Administration of Sports donated RMB387,000 to the disaster area in the Southeast tsunamis; Huang Yubin, deputy director of the National Gymnastics Center, and Teng Haibing, champion of the Athens Olympic Games, took the lead in donating RMB1,100 respectively and thereby brought along other athletes; the National Center of table tennis and badminton donated all the collected fund of RMB2 million by holding benefit match; the team with Shenxue and Zhao Hongbo as representatives in the Winter Project Management Center donated their one-month salary; during the “Chinese Love Action Evening Party” held in Beijing, Wang Yifu, Wang Junxia, Deng Yaping, Guo Jingjing and other sports stars gave non-benefit performance and donated for the disaster area on the stage. Liu Xiang, who is called the champion of “sport charity” in China, not only donated his racing suits, running shoes, autobiography books and remuneration, but also donated more than RMB500,000 in his own name and attended dozens of charity activities when the Southeast Asia suffered from tsunamis.
