Jet Li and His One Fund

After the adventurous experience in the Indian Ocean tsunami, Jet Li founded the charity fund: One Fund

The idea of the One Fund
The One Fund came up with the idea that one person plus one Yuan plus one month equal to one big family. With this idea, bringing everyone's donation together can sum up to a large number of charity money. In turn, the large number of charity money can help everyone at any time.

With the Red Cross spirits of humanity, fraternity and devotion and the idea of the whole world as a family, One Fund devotes itself to spreading the public welfare culture, establishing the public welfare platforms and promoting the development of public welfare business. At the same time, One Fund provides as much humanitarian assistance as possible for the people who are suffering from the disasters and emergencies. Based in China, One Fund is developing into a international public welfare brand.

In January 11, 2011, One Fund was registered as the public foundations in Shenzhen, which means that One Fund has become a separate legal entity and can raise money publicly.

One Fund has changed the traditional practice of raising money after the disaster. It raises money in regular times and can act quickly after the disaster happens. In addition, now One Funds pays more and more attention on the problems of mental health of youths.

Jet Li and His Movie Experience

Jet Li is mostly well known for his action movies. Opportunities always favor those who are prepared. In 1980, Jet Li was chosen by the director Chang Hsin-yen to play the hero in the movie Shaolin Temple, which was Jet Li's first movie and made a great success. In addition, this film made Jet Li embark on his career as action actor.

The scripts about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung may be the oldest in the world. There are more than 60 editions of the scripts about Wong Fei-hung in all, among which the most impressed Wong Fei-hung was the edition played by Jet Li. There are five Wong Fei-hung related movies played by Jet Li, which all made great success. In these five movies, the oriental elegance and courteous manners are interpreted perfectly by Jet Li. The featured posture in these movies as following became so classic and was imitated countless times.

Wong Fei-hung

Happy days do not last long. After the Wong Fei-hung series moves, Jet Li broke up with the Golden Harvest on bad terms. Then Jet Li founded his own film company: Eastern (HK) Film Production Co. Ltd. His new film company released many famous movies such as Fong Sai-yuk and The Bodyguard from Beijing.

Jet Li and World Famous Leaders: Deng Xiao-Ping and Richard Milhous Nixon

Because of Jet Li's great achievements in traditional Chinese martial arts: Wushu, he was well known among the world famous leaders.

Jet Li felt confused after he became famous. When he was at the age of twenty, he has written letters to Chinese leaders including Deng Xiao-Ping, Deng Ying-Chao, Yang Shang-Kun and Wang Zhen for help. He also received the letters from them. Jet Li also said that their care and encourage have a deep effect on his establishment of the charitable foundation: One Fund.

When Jet Li was a child

Three weeks after he wrote the letters to the Chinese leaders, Jet Li was received by the leaders in Peking and Deng Xiao-Ping wrote him a letter to encourage him. Two more weeks later, a person conveyed Deng Ying-Chao's wishes to him but forgot the pears that Deng Ying-Chao gave to him. The reason that Jet Li devoted himself into his One Fund was partially because of the advices from those leaders.

Jet Li in the movie The Bodyguard from Beijing

The Bodyguard from Beijing

We all know that Jet Li has shot a film named The Bodyguard from Beijing. However, nobody would imagine that former US president Richard Milhous Nixon has invited the young Jet Li to be his personal bodyguard but was refused by Jet Li. It was in 1974 when he performed in US, after the performance, Nixon asked Jet Li whether he would like to be his bodyguard. Jet Li replied that he wanted to safeguard one billion Chinese, not a single person. Kissinger added that Jet Li could be a diplomat in the future. This incidence has become a piece of headline news on New York Times.