Comparative Study Of The Development Of The Sino-Us Charity

Philanthropy is an important part of social security and social public welfare. Contemporary philanthropy’s development not only relates to the bottom of the people’s standard of living and quality of life, from the objective terms also to social stability and social harmony plays a very important role. With the deepening of China’s socialist construction as well as the improving of the people’s material and cultural life requirements, and has higher requirement for the development of philanthropy.China’s philanthropic ethics origin early, occupies an important position in Confucian culture. Confucius put forward implement humane, people-oriented, emphasis on helping others, people altruistic "opened" concept to "the people of this" the important thoughts, has paved the way for the ruler to implement all kinds of things. In the eastern han dynasty, the buddhist compassion into the China charity culture, poor thought her temple in the folk’s largest charity. Song and yuan times, government charity into folk charity, "official" charity system preliminary formation. Late Ming dynasty, China charity showing modern characteristics. During the opium war, under the idea of "salvation" boom, development, formation of modern philanthropy. British and American missionaries came to China with a variety of purposes, thought, to carry out charitable activities, to the change of the Chinese traditional charity thought played a role. After the founding of the people to self-determination, the government-led charity has an unprecedented development. Since China’s reform and opening up, along with the development of the national economy sustained and rapid, people’s living standards have improved dramatically, civil charity activities more and more active, has injected new vitality for the development of Chinese philanthropy.The charity of the United States is with national growth history has experienced many changes. American charity organization with completely transparent for the principle, in the organization of various funds to explicitly registered, also only in terms of registration can be submitted to the local local government. With the mainstream ideology of individualism in the United States, respect for individual self choice, promoting Christianity, therefore many wealthy americans want their property will be a lot of contribution to the society of charity. The characteristics of the charity is that citizens nationality, charity and more strength, larger charitable activities and charitable content rich variety.Although development history in China and the United States, paths, the mainstream ideology and the system is very different, but the two countries are now the world’s two largest economic entities, are countries with a large population. The charity in the United States have their own characteristics and advantages. Therefore, the comparative analysis of charity in China and the United States, looking for the gap between the development of Chinese philanthropy and its causes, to explore to speed up the development way to charities, with Chinese characteristics has important practical significance. This paper studies along this line of thinking, the last part of the paper proposes the use for reference the experience of the United States, speed up the development of Chinese philanthropy.