The most "willing" rich man in China has a net worth of 30 billion and wants to donate more than 29 billion. Who is he?

There is an old saying in China: "Poverty breeds treachery, wealth breeds conscience." It means that when a person is at the end of his rope, in order to survive, he will act selfishly or do something unethical. On the contrary, after a person is rich, he will think about helping those in need, honoring the elderly and loving his relatives. I have to admire the wisdom of our ancestors, who summed up human nature in just eight words.

We won’t talk about “poverty breeds evil deeds”. Today we talk about “richness breeds conscience.” This is true for many of China’s top wealthy people. After their careers are successful, most entrepreneurs will transform into Philanthropist, passionate about public welfare and concerned about education. However, the rich donate both domestically and abroad. The main target of foreign donations is the United States.

The person we are going to talk about today is the Chinese tycoon who has donated the most money to American universities - Chen Tianqiao. This is a legendary name in the circle of Chinese tycoons.

He was born in Xinchang, Zhejiang Province in May 1973. He graduated from Shanghai Yangjing Middle School in 1991 and was admitted to the Department of Economics of Fudan University. Chen Tianqiao's mind is not ordinary. He got excellent grades in school, graduated a year early, and then entered the workplace. He first worked at Lujiazui Group and later entered a securities company. In 1999, Chen Tianqiao decided to start his own business and founded Shanda Network with his wife, younger brother, and classmates.

In 2001, Chen Tianqiao reached the peak of his career and successively acted as an agent for many large-scale online games such as "Legend", "New Hero Gate", and "Crazy Tank". His Shanda Network has become the online game operator with the largest number of simultaneous online users in the world, achieving average monthly sales of tens of millions of yuan, holding more than 65% of the market share in China, and becoming the leader of China's interactive entertainment industry. . Shi Yuzhu, the founder of Giant Network, said that Chen Tianqiao is the "godfather of Chinese online games."

Chen Tianqiao’s wealth has grown at an alarming rate. In 2004, Shanda Network was listed on Nasdaq. 31-year-old Chen Tianqiao became the youngest richest man in China with a fortune of 9 billion. Chen Tianqiao single-handedly created a myth of starting a business from scratch, and his influence spreads all over the country and around the world. In the 2005 global Chinese business influence rankings, Chen Tianqiao ranked among the top ten. Chen Tianqiao has always been grateful to his wife for his career success. At the employee meeting at the end of each year, Chen Tianqiao's first glass of wine is given to his wife to thank her for her contribution to the company.

Chen Tianqiao’s wife Luo Qianqian never accepts interviews from the media and is willing to be a behind-the-scenes hero in the company. Anyone who is familiar with her knows that this beautiful and virtuous Hebei girl is Chen Tianqiao’s most powerful partner in his career. . Moreover, he was with Chen Tianqiao when he started his business, and their love story is also a good story in the industry. Many people are curious as to why Chen Tianqiao, who started from such a high starting point, fell back so far on the rich list. This may be related to his conversion to Buddhism. When he was nearly forty, Chen Tianqiao became a Buddhist, which may have improved his career. The competitive spirit has weakened.

Later, the richest man Chen Tianqiao turned to the philanthropist Chen Tianqiao for development. Since 2002, he has established Hope Primary Schools in Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Anhui, Gansu and other places, and has donated more than 100 million yuan to the Hope Project. Chen Tianqiao, who has fallen out of the top few on the rich list with one million yuan, is often at the top of the charity list. In 2016, he donated US$115 million to Caltech, which caused a sensation in the Chinese technology circle. He even said: "Except for leaving two to three percent of the money for my children, I will donate it all." In other words, Chen Tianqiao's current net worth is still about 30 billion, which means that he will keep less than 1 billion at most in the future and donate all the other more than 29 billion.