Beijing Charity Association was established on November 6, 1993. The Association was composed voluntarily of entities working on and supporting the charity and individuals caring about the charity, and is a public welfare non-profit organization with corporation status. All funds raises by the Association were used to the charitable public welfare and the fixed fund is earmarked for its specified purpose only without any extra management fees. A total of more than 1000 people are applied for the volunteers of the Association. By the end of the first half of 2010, the Association has raised money and goods worth around RMB 459 million by conducting various kinds of fund-raising activities, helped people (household) in straitened circumstances 300 thousand person-time, supported more than 2000 social welfare institutions and participated in relief missions of major natural disasters in China.