1In 2004, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, announced that he would donate $3.35 billion to his charitable foundation. At this time, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has assets of $27 billion, and with this donation of $3.3 billion, the total assets of the Foundation will exceed $30 billion, making it the largest charitable foundation in the United States.

2. In 2005, when Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, celebrated his 50th birthday in London, England, he announced that he would not go into politics, and that tens of billions of dollars of wealth would be donated to the society and would not be left as a legacy to future generations.

In the same year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was awarded the Medal of Honor by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. This medal is mainly used to commend Gates and his wife Melinda for their efforts to eliminate poverty and improve the health of local people in the Commonwealth and other developing countries.

3. In 2006, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's investment company, announced that it would donate $30 billion worth of shares to the charitable foundation under the name of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife. Buffett decided to donate most of his donation to Gates' charity foundation.

4. In 2008, Microsoft founder Gates said in an interview with the British BBC TV program Newsnight that he would donate all his $58 billion (HK$ 452.4 billion) property to his charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Miranda Gates Foundation), not a penny will be left to their children.

5. 20 10 1 Bill and Melinda Gates said at the press conference of Davos Forum that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide vaccine research and development and application support to the poorest areas in the world in the next decade.

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