The Japanese Chamber of Commerce inChina and the Beijing Japanese Society donated 890,000 yuan (about107,748 US dollars) to Beijing Friday in support of its anti-SARS fight, according to the Japanese Embassy in China.
The donations went to the Beijing government, the Sino-JapaneseFriendship Hospital and a non-governmental organization which helps train women and girl drop-outs in China's rural areas.
Part of the donations, mostly from Japanese enterprises in China and Japanese citizens living in Beijing, will be used to popularize anti-SARS knowledge in rural areas, said an official from the Japanese Embassy.
(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2003)
