CHARITY IN CHINA

China is appealing to its growing middle class to help support the country’s poor, reports The Guardian (UK). The government declared this call to action amid rising concern that as the country becomes wealthier but more divided, philanthropy remains slow and underdeveloped. While the rich in China continue to spend in record amounts, the government has begun to question the lack of charitable giving in a society made up largely of millions of people living in severe poverty.