Can-do people

US business consultant writes about philanthropy in China in latest version of her book. Liu Zhihua reports.

To Ruth Shapiro, people who use their skills and resources to run a social enterprise or a nonprofit in a business-like manner for the larger good of society can be considered social entrepreneurs.

The US business consultant, who released the Chinese version of her book The Real Problem Solvers, in China last November, has interviewed five Chinese philanthropists in the fields of education, environment, healthcare, crisis management and poverty alleviation, to add seven new chapters to it.