Chinese aid package on way to survivors
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March 15, 2011, Tuesday
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A CHARTERED flight delivering China's first round of humanitarian assistance landed in Japan yesterday and its cargo is already on its way to Miyagi Prefecture, one of the worst hit areas.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 777-200 took off from Shanghai's Pudong International Airport at 5:44pm yesterday heading for Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
The first relief package comprised 2,000 blankets, 900 cotton tents and 200 emergency lights valued at 7.2 million yuan (US$1.1 million), said Yang Hongbin, a Shanghai-based official with China's Ministry of Commerce.
The ministry said China would provide 30 million yuan worth of emergency humanitarian aid to Japan following the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
China's military was responsible for collecting this first batch of aid, as required by related emergency response mechanism and several government agencies, the Defense Ministry said in a separate statement, adding that the mission was accomplished in the shortest period of time.
A 15-member Chinese rescue team has already started search and rescue operations in Ofunato city in Japan's northeastern Iwate Prefecture.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Japanese Ambassador to China Niwa Unichiro in Beijing yesterday to offer continued support for Japan's disaster relief work.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Students Association of Shanghai's Fudan University launched a donation drive on campus yesterday. Proceeds from the three-day event will be sent to the quake-hit area via the Consulate-General of Japan in Shanghai, university officials said.
Takahashi Yuka, a Japanese student at the university, was not able to contact her family members yesterday because of the devastation in her hometown in Miyagi Prefecture. But she has learned from a friend that they are all safe although her family home was destroyed.
East China Normal University managed to contact the last five of its Chinese students studying in Japan yesterday and reported that all its overseas students were safe.
The Chinese embassy in Tokyo had not received any casualty report of Chinese nationals following Friday's colossal earthquake, the embassy said yesterday.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 777-200 took off from Shanghai's Pudong International Airport at 5:44pm yesterday heading for Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
The first relief package comprised 2,000 blankets, 900 cotton tents and 200 emergency lights valued at 7.2 million yuan (US$1.1 million), said Yang Hongbin, a Shanghai-based official with China's Ministry of Commerce.
The ministry said China would provide 30 million yuan worth of emergency humanitarian aid to Japan following the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
China's military was responsible for collecting this first batch of aid, as required by related emergency response mechanism and several government agencies, the Defense Ministry said in a separate statement, adding that the mission was accomplished in the shortest period of time.
A 15-member Chinese rescue team has already started search and rescue operations in Ofunato city in Japan's northeastern Iwate Prefecture.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Japanese Ambassador to China Niwa Unichiro in Beijing yesterday to offer continued support for Japan's disaster relief work.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Students Association of Shanghai's Fudan University launched a donation drive on campus yesterday. Proceeds from the three-day event will be sent to the quake-hit area via the Consulate-General of Japan in Shanghai, university officials said.
Takahashi Yuka, a Japanese student at the university, was not able to contact her family members yesterday because of the devastation in her hometown in Miyagi Prefecture. But she has learned from a friend that they are all safe although her family home was destroyed.
East China Normal University managed to contact the last five of its Chinese students studying in Japan yesterday and reported that all its overseas students were safe.
The Chinese embassy in Tokyo had not received any casualty report of Chinese nationals following Friday's colossal earthquake, the embassy said yesterday.
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