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Ningbo Collected Donations of over 8.6 Million yuan for the Earthquake-Stricken Areas
稿源: ningbo.gov.cn  | 2008-05-14 19:20:44

  In face of the unexpected earth-quake disaster, many enterprises and citizens in Ningbo do not spare themselves for help. According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs and Ningbo Charity Federation, by 5 yesterday, they had collected donations of over 8,600,000 yuan. On the afternoon yesterday, Zhe Yunde, Chairman of the Board of Yusheng Group, visited Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs and donated 1.2 million yuan to help seriously damaged Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyuan City. Of the donation, 1 million yuan is donated in the name of his company and the other 200,000 yuan is the money he got as the national award for money science and technology. He said, "A friend of my wife lost his life in the Tangshan earthquake. I know what great pain the earthquake can bring people. When I got the aware, I decided to use the money in the charity affair. So I wish this money can be of some help for the distressed school."

  Early in yesterday morning, representatives from Xian Huixing Taxi Teams, and Zhongbei Taxi Teams came to Ningbo Charity Federation and donated 10,000 yuan they had collected from the taxi drivers for the earthquake-stressed areas. Shao Yuanzhong, a retired teacher hurried to the community and donated 1,000 yuan to the victims of the calamity in Sichuan.

  Zhou Shuzhong, a Chinese-Japanese, once he learned about the disaster in Sichuan, contacted Ningbo-Hong Kong Federation and donated 50,000 yuan the day before yesterday, and yesterday he donated 50,000 yuan again. Ningbo-Hong Kong Federation has transferred the donations to Sichuan.

  It is learned that Ningbo Charity Federation and its branches have appropriated 3,06,000 yuan to help the victims of the stressed areas.

【编辑:吴颖】