BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- China
will deliver humanitarian aid worth 30 million yuan (4.41 million U.S.
dollars) to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Ministry
of Commerce announced Friday.
A chartered flight loaded with the first
batch of emergency materials, including medicines, tents, food, emergency
lights, clothing and water, would depart from Beijing on Saturday morning,
said a ministry statement.
China sent an emergency rescue team
on Wednesday evening to Haiti, where tens of thousands of people are buried
under debris after the 7.3-magnitude earthquake, the strongest quake in
about 200 years in the Caribbean island country, on Tuesday.
China's Red Cross Society has pledged
1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid.
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