(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-13 23:02

BEIJING  -- The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has received public donations totaling more than 120 million yuan (17 million US dollars) for victims in earthquake-hit areas in southwest China.

So far, 14.6 million yuan worth of relief supplies in both cash and goods, including tents, quilts, food, medicine and drinking water disinfectant, had been forwarded to Sichuan Province, the RCSC said.

The RCSC has organized five disaster relief teams on Tuesday. The society sent a rescue team on Monday evening to survey the situation.

Urgently needed items included tents, quilts, food and water, but these were difficult to move to the region due to transport problems, so cash was preferred, said an official with the RCSC.

The China Charity Federation said on Tuesday it would forward 400 tents and 1 million yuan to the province, and it called for public donations.

The China Welfare Lottery Management Center has donated 5 million yuan to Wenchuan County and the China Disabled Persons' Federation and China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped have jointly donated 3 million yuan.

The China Education Development Foundation called for donations on Tuesday for the students affected by the earthquake.

Meanwhile, government and Communist Party of China (CPC) organs, and overseas Chinese also contributed to the cause.

The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) has offered more than 14 million yuan to the quake-hit region to mainly help young people and the reconstruction of schools.

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