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China donates emergency aid to flood victims in southern Thailand

Xinhua, January 13, 2017 Adjust font size:

Chinese embassy in Bangkok has donated some 28000 U.S. dollars worth of emergency aid for flood hit southern Thailand, according to the embassy on Friday.

Red Cross Society of China will donate 100000 U.S. dollars to help flood-hit people in southern Thailand, disclosed the embassy.

Chinese ambassador Ning Fukui, representing Chinese embassy and Chinese consulate-general in Songkhla, went to the southern province of Songkhla on Thursday and donated 1 million baht (28,600 U.S. dollars) to flood victims in southern Thailand.

Ning said that as China and Thailand are "good neighbors, good partners, good friends and good relatives," Chinese people and Thai people should help each other, Ning said.

"Although it is a not a big amount of aid, but it contains sincerity and friendship from Chinese people, we hope that our Thai friends can overcome the disaster and everything will back to normal as soon as possible." Ning said.

Anuchit Trakulmututa, Songkhla's vice governor said he was moved by Chinese ambassador's visit to the flood hit province, which shows the great friendship between peoples of both countries.

Anuchit said the local government will hand the aid to flood victims as soon as possible. Endit