The Chinese government has allocated another 200 million yuan (US$ 29.3 million) to quake relief in the northwest Qinghai Province on top of 500 million yuan already earmarked, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.
Hong Kong volunteer Wong Fuk-wing, also known as Ah Fuk, who sacrificed his life in the course of attempting to rescue victims of the recent Qinghai earthquake, was laid to rest in his home city on Friday morning.
China had raised 4.985 billion yuan ($730 million) of donations in money and materials for quake-hit Yushu as of midday Thursday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Hong Kong people, including hundreds of volunteers, streamed into a downtown funeral home on Thursday to pay their last respect to the city's fallen hero, Wong Fuk-wing, a former volunteer who lost his life saving others in the earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai province.
Student Zhoema holds a "love package" at an orphans' school in quake-hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province, on May 5, 2010.
"With the help of the eminent monk, my mom can go to Sukhavati," said 14-year-old Nyima Tendru as he grieved for his mother lost in the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 14.
High school graduates from earthquake-ravaged Yushu prefecture of Northwest China's Qinghai province will have greater opportunities to enter college due to favorable policies from the Ministry of Education.
Hong Kong's leading charity donor, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, said Sunday it had donated another HK$16.3 million($2.1 million) for earthquake-hit area in northwestern China's Qinghai province to help disaster relief work.
More than 8 tons of dog food donated by animal lovers across China has been delivered to the quake-hit northwest Qinghai province for Tibetan mastiff breeders, a mastiff association said Sunday.
The Communist Youth League of China has raised 81.31 million yuan ($11.9 million) for quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Construction of permanent housing for quake victims in Gyegu will hit full stride next week.
10-year-old puts others' lives ahead of his own