BG: first, China will be its charity Road station
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News source: TechWeb
On June 26, Bill Gates would start with the summer becoming a full-time philanthropist, first stop of his charitable activities for the year for China. Linda Gates Foundation, Bill and beauty will be introduced in China for several key health programmes, including HIV/AIDS prevention and smoking cessation, and to China agricultural knowledge to Africa to, improving Africa’s agriculture.
Gates in a previous interview spoke about upcoming new charitable projects in China. He will withdraw from day-to-day management of Microsoft this week, started the Gates Foundation’s global work.
Taking into account China in recent years due to economic prosperity and wealth, China may not be the gates and the foundation of the destination.
Although some areas of China are poor because the epidemic raging, but it helped other poorer countries to improve agricultural production and other fields have a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Gates said: " China is an interesting country, it accepted aid from other countries on the one hand, on the other hand it also assist other poorer countries. Equipped do their economy has improved a lot them for helping poorer countries part. "
Chinese smokers have many. Gates Foundation intends to launch a new scheme to help Chinese people quit smoking.
According to the World Health Organization said, of the total number of smokers in China accounted for almost the world’s smokers 30%. China has about 60% of men smoke, people die of smoking-related diseases each year more than 1 million people.
Beijing has promised to hold a " a smoke-free Olympics ", during the Olympic Games, including the Olympic Stadium, will prohibit smoking in most public places. But a smoke has become part of the culture.
Gates said: " on the smoking ban that we’d like to see the Chinese during the Olympic Games can do. Americans far more affluent than the Chinese, so China should be able than the United States to do better. "
He said he planned to attend the Olympic Games.
The Gates Foundation also said it will work on China’s hepatitis b vaccination to provide sponsorship, hepatitis b has now has had an impact on the 10% of China’s population.
In the area of agriculture, the Foundation will spread knowledge through a number of plans to China to Africa to help improve crop yields in Africa.
Has two of the world’s leading rice research center, located in the Philippines and China.
The Gates Foundation is cooperation with the Asian rice researchers, their focus is on how to meet the needs of Africa on drought resistance of rice and rice.
Gates said: " in some cases, they are not our investment case has started a cooperation with us. At some point, we will give them money and ask them to address crop some of the problems in Africa. "
In order to begin solving the problem of HIV/AIDS, the Gates Foundation opened an Office in Beijing last year, employing United States CDC Director before Ray Yip is responsible for the plan. The Office had promised initially invested $ 50 million of funding for related work.
He said the Foundation would cooperate closely with the Ministry of health in China.
He said " on the prevention of such problems, they welcome attitude to foreign organizations, this is a good cooperation. "
United Nations plan of UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot said Gates Foundation early choice of is correct.
He said " AIDS can lead to any serious incidents occurred. China as a nation, a Community national sex great changes are taking place, prostitution is rampant in many regions. We have in us to every Chinese city have found a prevalence of homosexuality. "
Many African countries with high incidence of epidemic are small States. Botswana is the world’s highest proportion of cancer cells in patients with the State, it had about 1.6 million people. In China the situation is different.
Gates said: " let us imagine, if there is 1% of Chinese suffering from AIDS, that means the number of AIDS patients as many as 13 million people. "
He said " I think, is worth the money spent. That money will be mainly used for the prevention of epidemics. "