He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Mansfield Foundation, the China Fund and the Noble Group.

Of the $110 million it raised, the China Fund has deployed only $24.5 million, in Hong Kong companies with substantial operations in China.

But then the Amity Foundation in the United States provided $8,000 and another $8,000 came from the China Fund.

But Simon Lee, manager of the $8.8 million China Fund at Sun Hung Kai Fund Management, was cautious.

Frontlash also received the support of the National Consumers League and the Democracy for China Fund.

Democracy for China Fund was established to support democratic movements in China and to promote ideas of political freedom and human rights.

Bryant has made his way over to China for the 2008 Olympics, held in Beijing, and launched the China Fund in 2009.

The China Fund, for example, traded at a 15.2 percent premium to its net asset value at the end of the quarter.

They are believed to have assisted Mr. Shen in trying to set up a local chapter of the Democracy for China Fund.

His public role as director in chief of the China Fund for the Handicapped, which is intended to aid disabled people in his country, stems from personal misfortune.