It was not difficult to prepare for the press conference. When Yu Liyong returned to the foundation to start stepping up preparations, he found that Zhou Zichen and several directors were chatting.
Zhou Zichen repeatedly agreed: "Brother Ma, I very much agree with your view. The most basic thing for poverty alleviation is to support an entire village to develop its own industry. Only when a village has its own industry can it have sustained income, and these days
The country is also preparing to reform rural areas in 2018, and wants a unified plan. In the future, when we support rural areas, we should not only target those poor households, but should target the entire village, so that their village can form an industry. As long as they lead the way, they themselves will
You can become well-off!"
Ma Qiuming is one of the two members of the Asset Management Committee of the Bohong Charitable Foundation and is also the executive director. Zhou Zichen has been mingling with people from the foundation these days. We all have a lot of chats, and the conversations are basically about charity issues.
Seeing that Zhou Zichen agreed with his opinion, Ma Qiuming was also very happy: "We have been studying these things for many years, but we are not able to get enough funds. We don't have much funds ourselves, so we can only help."
Individuals don’t have much money to help people in impoverished mountainous areas.”
Zhou Zichen has also been to those places and has been thinking about this matter. However, many things cannot be rushed. Instead, he has to walk step by step: "Brother Ma, you don't have to worry. Today's national policies
Well, they are tax-exempt and tax-reduced for our charitable organizations, and sometimes some donations will be given to us. There are thousands of foundations across the country, and everyone is working hard. One winter, everyone across the country will be lifted out of poverty."
Ma Qiuming took a long breath: "I know this too, I just hope that this day can come sooner."
Yu Liyong saw that the two people were only talking about charity, so he didn't pay much attention to it and walked over directly: "Brother Ma, Xiao Zhou, what are you two talking about?"
Zhou Zichen and Yu Liyong have met a lot these days, and the two of them are not called "Mr. Zhou" or "Mr. Yu".
Zhou Zichen and Ma Qiuming looked over and realized that Yu Liyong had already walked in front of them. Zhou Zichen moved his chair to make room for Yu Liyong: "Sit!"
Yu Liyong sat down on the side and said: "Xiao Zhou, didn't you say you want to hold a press conference? I think this is also feasible and will be of great benefit to our foundation. I will arrange people for it later.
Notify the media."
Zhou Zichen waved his hand and said, "No need, I have already made arrangements. I have rented the office building in the city center and the space is just for one day."
Yu Liyong didn't expect Zhou Zichen to prepare so quickly. From the looks of it, he didn't take his words seriously at all and just did whatever he wanted.
However, thinking of Li Yao's arrangement, Yu Liyong sneered in his heart, but still said with a smile on his face: "Xiao Zhou, you are still thoughtful. If it were me, I would have to ask grandpa to sue grandma, so that I can
In such an urgent situation, a press conference should be held."
Zhou Zichen had known for a long time that Yu Liyong had gone to see Li Yao. These days, Zhou Zichen had arranged for people to monitor the situation of these two people. Zhou Zichen knew clearly in his heart what Yu Liyong had done.
"I'm just messing around, as long as President Yu doesn't blame me for messing around."
Yu Liyong laughed and said: "How can I blame you? You are promoting our foundation!"
"And I have to thank you. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have so much money to do these projects. Xiao Zhou, I really admire you from the bottom of my heart!"
Ma Qiuming just watched and didn't speak. He knew very well who Yu Liyong was, but in this foundation, he had everything to cover the sky. The other directors were just decorations and didn't have much power. In the end, Yu Liyong still
Li Yong’s words.
In fact, Ma Qiuming and Zhou Zichen tried to persuade Zhou Zichen to be more careful, but Zhou Zichen only responded and never asked further questions, let alone expressed his position.
Seeing Zhou Zichen's attitude, Ma Qiuming couldn't bring himself to be unhappy. He pulled Zhou Zichen aside and revealed everything. It would be fine if Zhou Zichen accepted his kindness, but if Zhou Zichen didn't accept it, he would end up with it.
It makes him no longer human inside and out.
Zhou Zichen and Yu Liyong played a rough game, and Yu Liyong stood up and resigned. When he went to see Zhou Zichen a few days ago, he almost groveled, but now he is putting on some airs, because Zhou Zichen is easy to talk to.
Zhou Zichen didn't care about this, since his target wasn't Yu Liyong anyway.
Seeing Yu Liyong walking away, Ma Qiuming still couldn't hold it back and reminded Zhou Zichen: "Xiao Zhou, I know you are not short of money and you are also very keen on charity, but the foundation is in very muddy waters, so you'd better be careful.
.”
"What's wrong?" Zhou Zichen asked for the first time. Zhou Zichen didn't ask these days because he was not familiar with Ma Qiuming. After getting along with him these days, Zhou Zichen found that Ma Qiuming was a very good person and a real person.
The kind of person who is willing to help others really wants to be charitable.
Although Ma Qiuming serves as a director here, he also has a small company of his own. Although it is not big, the business is not bad.
Ma Qiuming lowered his voice and said: "Because foundations have tax benefits, especially public charity foundations, which are all tax-free, many people will find ways to set up a public foundation, but the requirements for public fundraising are too strict, so
I had no choice but to do the next best thing and do private equity, donate the money to a foundation, and then cash it out by changing hands, thus evading a lot of taxes every year."
"There is also a management fee. Nowadays, charity foundations across the country have a 5% management fee for any donation. This is deducted from the donation and counted as the profit of the charity. This is allowed by the state.
Yes, but these management fees, in most cases, go into other people’s pockets.”
"In other words, if a patient who is seriously ill and his family cannot afford it, he turns to the foundation for help. Before donating to him, the foundation will charge him a 5% management fee, which will also be deducted from the donation."
Zhou Zichen didn't expect that there were such things in the foundation. If the foundation took part of the money it managed, Zhou Zichen would understand, but taking this money from the donors made Zhou Zichen feel a little uncomfortable:
"Why doesn't anyone come out against it? Are all foundations across the country like this?"
Ma Qiuming was also a little helpless: "This is an unspoken rule in the industry, and the state has given this 5% right. There are more than 4,000 foundations across the country, and no one dares not to accept it. Even if there are a few who really want to be charitable, they cannot
Charging this 5% management fee is challenging the entire industry."
Zhou Zichen finally understood. It is estimated that many of the more than 4,000 charitable foundations are used by wealthy people to evade taxes. There are probably not so many people who really care about charity.
"We just need to be ourselves. Even if we collect money, we have to use other ways to use the money where it should be used."
Ma Qiuming could only nod, but thought in his heart, this is not easy!
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The press conference was held not far from the Yongheng Group. Yu Liyong was a little surprised when he arrived. There were actually twenty or thirty media there. There were not so many media in the entire Jiangdong City. Zhou Zichen probably brought those from other cities.
Some media were also invited.
The content of the reception was actually very simple. Yu Liyong came to the stage to talk about some situations of the Bohong Foundation and recent projects, and then the main content of the reception was completed.
Yu Liyong cleared his throat and said: "This time our Bohong Charity Foundation has a new director, Mr. Zhou Zichen. I believe everyone is familiar with him, and we also know that Mr. Zhou is an enthusiastic charity person.
This time there is a city in Sichuan Province that is in urgent need of money to build more than 500 health centers. When Mr. Zhou found out about it, he donated 25 million without hesitation. Now we ask Mr. Zhou to come up and say a few words.
"
Thinking of the warm applause below, Zhou Zichen had already made preparations, and when Yu Liyong stepped down, he followed him on stage.
Zhou Zichen stood in front of the microphone and said: "I am the director of a charity foundation, that is, just recently, but in these days, I have made a lot of friends and know how charity should be done."
"I just donated a sum of money and it's not worthy of praise."
…
"There is always a person I admire in my heart, and that is Mr. Li Yao, the chairman and part-time general manager of Yongheng Group. I held this reception here because as long as you go out here, you can see Mr. Li Yao of Yongheng Group.
Mr. Yao."
"Compared with Mr. Li Yao, the money I donated is nothing. I would like to ask all the media friends present to come with me to interview Mr. Li."
When Yu Liyong started listening, there was nothing wrong with what Zhou Zichen said, but by the end of it, he felt something was wrong.
Yu Liyong is very clear about the relationship between Zhou Zichen and Li Yao. If it is believable to say that Zhou Zichen annoys Li Yao the most, it is completely impossible to say that Zhou Zichen admires Li Yao the most.
Yu Liyong quickly took out his mobile phone to call Li Yao, but found that the call was different from the one he originally called, indicating that the other party was not in the service area.
At this time, Zhou Zichen led a large number of reporters towards the office building of Yongheng Group.
By coincidence, as soon as Yu Liyong's call was answered, he saw Zhou Zichen leading a group of reporters from a distance and met Li Yao at the door.
Yu Liyong hurried up and heard Zhou Zichen say to Li Yao: "Mr. Li, I have read a lot of information about Bohong Charitable Fund these days, and I found that you have donated nearly 200 million in recent years, and
You do good deeds without leaving your name, and the outside world doesn't know about it. I think your good deeds should be known to the public, so that they know how much you have given to charity."
Li Yaoming clearly knew that Zhou Zichen had bad intentions, but because there were too many reporters around and he couldn't get angry, he could only say with a smile: "Take it from the people, use it for the people. I have always believed in this sentence."
, and I have always persisted.”
"We people are rich and live a good life, but there are still many places in our country that are poor, so we have the responsibility to help them and let them live a better and higher-quality life."
Li Yao's words were so righteous. Zhou Zichen took the lead in applauding, and many media reporters also followed suit.
Zhou Zichen waited for everyone to stop applauding, and continued: "This time, Mr. Li Yao has donated another 30 million. He plans to use this money to build 20 Hope Primary Schools in Yunnan and Guizhou Province, and also to help a very poor person.
The village has been lifted out of poverty and into moderate prosperity."
"We are open and transparent about these two projects. Mr. Li Yao has already received 18 million donations, and the two projects are already being promoted. I believe that in the near future, many children in poor areas will be able to
Studying in a school donated by Mr. Li Yao."
Zhou Zichen praised Li Yao so highly, and with so many reporters present, Li Yao couldn't help but admit it.