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Shenzhen donates 1,000 prefabricated houses to Taiwan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-17 14:53

BEIJING: The government of Shenzhen city in southern China last Sunday decided to donate 1,000 prefabricated houses to Taiwan, which has been hit by the worst typhoon in half a century.

The houses will arrive in Kaohsiung city, in southern Taiwan today. 

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Meanwhile, mainland Red Cross organizations, leagues of banks, Buddhist associations and companies have allocated thousands of millions of yuan to help relieve the disaster, official said.

Member companies of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) donated more than 100 million yuan ($14.6 million) and HK$5 million ($645,000) to Taiwan.

The mainland's Red Cross Society offered 15 million yuan ($2.20 million) to the island's Red Cross organization, and the mainland's Buddhist Association allocated 5 million yuan ($732,000).

The China Southern Airlines, the China Eastern Airlines, and the Fujian Provincial Red Cross, the China Union Pay and the China Disabled Persons Federation each donated 1 million yuan ($146,000).

Typhoon Morakot has killed at least 124 people and left 56 missing in Taiwan as of 10 pm last Saturday, according to local disaster response authorities.