Hong Kong actor Andy Lau celebrates with his trophy after winning the Best Actor award for "A Simple Life" at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards, April 15, 2012.[Photo/Agencies]

Andy Lau's contribution to charity is omnipresent.?

He is always one of the first celebrities to initiate donations or benefit performances whenever natural disasters take place.

In 1991, Andy donates 5 million RMB (about?$785,240)?for victims of East China flood. In 2001, he provided 2000 cotton-padded clothes for people in snowstorm-hit Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

In 2008,?Lau donated?100,000 RMB (about $15,704) to victims of?Wenchuan earthquake. Moreover, the?Andy Lau Charity Foundation offered 600,000 Hong Kong Dollars (about?$77,329)?to support Sichuan earthquake reconstruction projects.

After the?Yushu earthquake, Lau,?together with Jackie Chan, organized?benefit performances and collected 280 million?RMB (about?44 million USD)?including his own donation of 200,000 RMB (about $31,409).