The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) decided to donate 50 million U.S. dollars in cash to China hit by a devastating earthquake in May, Xinhua learnt from the Chinese embassy in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The fund will be used in the reconstruction work in the earthquake-hit Sichuan Province in southwestern China, the Chinese embassy said.
Till midday Monday, 69,019 people were confirmed dead in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake, which had its epicenter in Sichuan's Wenchuan county. The number of the injured has reached 373,573, while 18,627 people are reported missing.
Source:Xinhua
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