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inctively engaged themselves in the actual charitable activities. The Western Christian takes charity as a discipline. The followers have a sense of fear, because they think that whether do good deeds or not will make their afterlife different. Therefore, charity based on religion is better than that based on moral. B. The Social Function of Charity 1. Rescue the Soul Andrew Carnegie was recognized as one of the founders of private charity. He has also been recognized as a pioneer of modern charity. His famous saying “Dying in billionaire is a disgrace” for generations by renowned philanthropist. Carnegie said that the aim of being rich is returning excess wealth to the compatriots in order to rescue the people’s souls which lose in money. He wants to tell us that charity not only is to help the poor, but also help ourselves. Carnegie is the founder of the Carnegie Foundation which is the first batch of modern charity organizations. The modern conception of commercial operation infiltrates in the operation of Charity organizations, which combine religious charity’s traditions and the American-style conception of civil society together. These constitute the soul of the modern charity. His charity activities move us and review the Carnegie’s sentence，”Dying in billionaire is a disgrace.” 2. Creating Spiritual Value Charity needs the spirit more than money. Charity built the material world and spiritual world at the same time. The resource of charity in China is limited so far. As the Hope Project an example, only 2.7 billion Yuan is collected in 16 years. It is only equal to 3-4 kilometers subway in Shanghai. It’s insignificant to mention its pure economic value. The Hope Project not only help 2.7 million children, who were out of school, go back to school, and build 12000 Hope schools, but also bring active impact on the ideology, morals and culture. At the end of the 1990s, an investigation about the thought of the youth all over the country was carried on, and finally the Hope Project ranked the first of the “ the most effective activity of the Education of thought and morals”. It exceeded the special activity of the education of the thought and morals which held the second place more than 50 percentage points. We can draw the conclusion from this example that the ability of the spiritual value made by the charity is much greater than we can imagine. Many volunteers and professionals are engaged in charity, and their enthusiasm have some color to religion. Although there are plenty of troubles and handicaps, they never give up it. For example, Cong Fei, who comes from Shenzhen, has used all his earnings to aid the kids of the poor by singing for more than 10 years until he died of illness. If they don not have the great bosom, they can never do like this. Ⅲ. Charity Actuality in China The simple fact is that the poor now have more than they ever did in China. The living standard and access to life need among the poor in China has improved more than it ever did before. The gap between the poor and the rich is still wider, because the wealth of the rich in China (a new class) has increased even faster. The pace of charity can not keep up with the developing situation in China. The gap must be eliminated, in case of social contradictions by a rich-hostility. A. The Disparity Between the Poor and the Rich While the Chinese governments with the existing interests in planning economy still shows strong tendencies toward