Chow Yun-Fat, famous Hong Kong movie actor, will donate fortune to charity.
香港著名影星周润发将把个人财产捐赠给慈善机构。
Winning the best actor in Hong Kong Film Award for three times and twice in Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Chow Yun-Fat is known as a symbol of Hong Kong movie industry. Chow started his
acting1 career in 1973, and now he is still working at the frontline.
Being rich and famous, Chow lives a simple and
frugal2 live. He tries to take public transports as often as possible when he is off work. He prefers buying cheap but comfortable clothes to shopping
luxury3 brands. He always enjoys Hong Kong traditional street foods. What's more, he had been using an old Nokia for 17 years, before it finally broke down.
Opposite to
parsimony4 towards himself, Chow is generous to society as a public figure. Chow announced on October 15 that he will donate all his fortune, 5.6 billion Hong Kong dollars ($700 million), to charity after he retires. Jasmine
Tan5, Chow's wife, said the charity
foundation6 has been set upon the news conference of Chow's new film "Project Gutenberg" in Beijing.