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Abstract Nowadays, the disparity between the rich and the poor is becoming wider and wider in China. In order to develop China’s charity and shorten the disparity, it is necessary to learn from the experience of western charity, charity is an indispensable part in people’s life, and it plays a very important role in modern human activities. The paper is to discuss charity actuality in China, and the solutions to charity. At the beginning of this paper, the author is to explain the meaning of “charity” clearly. Then, to discuss the origins of China’s charity include “benevolence”, the idea of “people foremost”, the thought of unification and the conception of justice and benefit, the main sources of the Western charity including humanity, and the sense of guilt and humility. The different origins of charity result in the different charity. Finally, the author is to analyze the problems and the solutions to China’s charity. 摘　要如今，中国的贫富差距越来越明显，谁也不愿意看到这一不和谐的社会现象。作者认为可以借鉴西方发展慈善事业的一些经验改善我国的慈善事业现状，从而缩小这一差距。慈善事业在人类现代活动中起着十分重要的作用，是人类社会生活不可缺少的一部分。本文首先对“慈善”的认识作较详细的阐述，接着简单讨论了中国和西方慈善事业的渊源。慈善渊源的不同导致了中西方慈善事业的差异。然后分析中国慈善事业现状，最后就存在的问题和不足提出切实可行的解决办法。 Introduction Charity is a highly effective way to shuttle freely between wealth and spiritual value. It can shorten the great disparity between the rich and the poor and make the world be full of love. Charity will face many unprecedented challenges. The gap between the rich and the poor worldwide continues to grow. Even over 6% people in the world who control 50% wealth, a foreboding sense is growing. House price is rising. Job markets are reinventing themselves continually. The governments are straining to deliver services when the streamlining outdated structures appear. The “business of charity” is undergoing rapid changes. Well-heeled donors are dined by organizations desperate for a share of the new Information Age wealth. The new giving classes created in the last two decades are discriminating and pragmatic anxious to see their charitable investments pay for dividends. Being solicited more money, charity find it harder to recruit volunteers or paid-staff willing to sacrifice time and money for the cause. Charity organizations have played an indispensable role in raising money for social emergencies for those living in difficulties. In 2003, China was hit by the sudden outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), in the decade-long campaign of the Hope Project, which has given money to finance kids in rural villages to go to school. The aims of Mother’s Water Cellar Project are to solve drinking water problems in China’s arid in the western regions. The author is to offer several solutions to the problems in China’s charity. It must cultivate China’s modern charity conception, beautify the incentive system and accelerate the accumulation of charity resources, and establish a system which combines self-discipline and be mutual legal discipline. Several notions must be held in creative tension in order to forge a new ear of charity. Ⅰ.The Brief Introduction of Charity in the West and China The definition of charity in the dictionary is giving voluntarily to those in need; alms-giving; an institution or organization for helping those in need; a kindness, benevolence; tolerance in judging others; love of one’s fellow human beings. In more popular usage charity is sometimes thought of in more narrow terms as the relief of poverty or distress. Both the Western and China hav