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US$5.4m collected for tsunami victims
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-01-07 13:49 The Red Cross Society of China had collected 5.4
million US dollars of donations by Thursday afternoon for tsunami-hit victims
and is ready to send 2 million US dollars to the four countries of Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, Maldives and Thailand in the next one or two days.
"Indonesia and Sri Lanka will each receive 600,000 US dollars, the Maldives
500,000 US dollars and Thailand 300,000 US dollars," the China Daily reported
Friday, citing Red Cross spokesman Wang Xiaohua.
The moneys will be distributed to local Red Cross societies through Chinese
embassies. "Since the Maldives has no such organization, we will hand over the
money to authorities there," said Wang.
By 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon the Red Cross of China had collected a total
of around 45 million yuan (5.4 million US dollars). The China Charity
Federation, meanwhile, reported donations of 30 million yuan (3.6 million US
dollars) as of Thursday.
China's top entertainers also staged an unprecedented charity show Thursday
night for the aid to tsunami victims at Beijing's Workers Stadium, which drew an
enthusiastic and magnanimous crowd,raising an as yet uncounted sum for the
victims of the tsunami catastrophe.
It was announced during the show that the largest corporate donor was China
National Petroleum Corporation, which had raised more than 12.56 million yuan
(1.5 million US dollars). While the largest individual giver was Zeng Wei, a
Beijing real-estate developer, who, together with his wife, chipped in 1 million
yuan (120,000 US dollars).
The event was hastily organized by a group of Beijing-based performing
artists, including the director of the current box office hit "World Without
Thieves," Feng Xiaogang.
"We only had three days to organize the whole thing. I wish we had more
time," said Meng Xin, one of the show's producers.
Guan Mucun, a singer originally from Tianjin, said that mainland artists have
the same big heart as their Hong Kong cousins. "What we need is someone to stand
up and call the shots."
Zhang Yimou, world famous director of China, was not part of the event but
news was leaked that he had become the largest donor from the mainland's
entertainment industry with 300,000 yuan (362,000 US dollars).
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