Yun Ma has joined the US-based Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation as a trustee. Established on February 20, 2013, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation for the Life Sciences has created the Breakthrough Prize for the Life Sciences to inspire scientists who are engaged in research to fight cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's and other diseases. With the addition of Mr. and Mrs. Ma, they will contribute $3 million annually to the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation. The foundation's annual awards will increase to six, each with a prize of $3 million.
Two of the larger donations were ￡14.5 billion in 2014, which was the largest donation of the year, and ￡14.65 billion in 2015, which was also the largest donation of the year. Since then it has donated a little less each year, but has amassed more than $30 billion.
In order to better address the shortage of supplies, Alibaba has set up a special fund of 1 billion for medical supplies, actively mobilized domestic supporting capacity, and coordinated the urgent resumption of work in factories in Yiwu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and 58 other regions to speed up the production of medical supplies. The first batch will purchase 2 million N95 masks 0x17.753 million medical surgical masks, 100 million disposable medical masks and other protective equipment.
In addition, Alibaba's "box and horse" also began to send free meals to medical personnel. We are doing our best to make sure that the people of Wuhan are well off.
When it comes to the giants' charities, I'm sure everyone will say that foreigners prefer to donate money because giants like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Zuckerberg have already pledged to donate a large part of their fortunes.