More relief aid offered to China for earthquake victims

Source: Xinhua | 06-06-2008 11:00

BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- More countries and organizations have offered aid in the wake of the devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12.

Workers of Sudan's oil fields and refineries have donated nearly 90,000 U.S. dollars for China's quake victims.

Sudan's Ministry of Energy and Mining also proposed on Wednesday that all oil workers in the country donate one to two days' salary to the earthquake-hit regions in China.

The Bulgarian government decided Thursday to allocate 100,000 euros (some 154,000 U.S. dollars) in humanitarian aid to China to help it deal with the consequences of the earthquake, the government's information service said.

The Danish Red Cross will provide tents to the quake-hit regions and set up a large tent camp in Sichuan's capital Chengdu for the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry out relief work.

The large compact tents for building the camp will be transported to Chengdu on Saturday by a chartered plane, according to information from the Chinese embassy in Denmark.

The parliament of the central Mexican state of Mexico on Thursday donated through the Chinese embassy 400,000 pesos (some 37,000 dollars) for China's disaster-hit regions.

President of the state parliament, Carlos Alberto Cadena, said that the people of Mexico, a country frequently hit by earthquakes, can deeply feel the pain the Chinese people are suffering.

The International Herald Tribune newspaper of the United States ran an article Thursday hailing China's disaster-relief work as "swift and inclusive" and that the passion of Chinese people participating in disaster relief could be felt.

"The trucks roll in convoys organized by place of origin. They might be carrying cement from Hubei, or tents from Shandong, or heavy equipment from Shanghai...One already detects a spirit of competition to see who can help the most," says the article.

The death toll from the quake rose to 69,127 as of Thursday noon, while 373,612 people were injured and 17,918 people are still missing, according to official figures.

Editor:Xiong Qu