This reply is actually useful, because it reveals a very American assumption:
If a society helps the poor, it must look like America.
Food banks.
Charities.
Veteran shelters.
Nonprofits.
Emergency aid.
A whole misery-management industry built around state failure.
China does not operate that way.
China does not rely on food-bank culture because poverty relief is not supposed to be outsourced to charity.
It is handled through administration:
local governments,
village committees,
neighborhood committees,
household registration,
rural support programs,
micro-credit,
basic medical coverage,
employment assistance,
poverty monitoring,
and targeted help for vulnerable households.
That 82-year-old man in the video was not “abandoned.”
He had lived alone in that rural home for decades.
People came to check on him, talk to him, bring supplies, ask what he needed, and help with daily necessities.
That is precisely the difference.
In America, poverty often becomes a charity case.
In China, poverty is treated as a governance responsibility.
No, China is not perfect.
But pretending an old rural man receiving local assistance is the same as American-style street homelessness is dishonest.
So the real question is not whether China has “food banks.”
The real question is why the richest country on earth needs food banks as a permanent survival mechanism.
Charity is not proof of compassion.
It is just proof that the state has walked away.
Do they have food banks in China? Do they have charities who provide assistance to homeless people? Do they have drug, medical and mental health treatment options available for people who are homeless in China? Do they have job placement services that help with job searching, resume writing and interview practice?
If the answer is no, then the homeless people in China are far worse off than any of the homeless people in the USA. This is coming from a US Navy Veteran that experienced homelessness in Colorado during winter.