The One Foundation Project, initiated by Chinese kung fu star Jet Li in 2007, has raised over 10 million yuan in its first year, and has allocated 2.3 million yuan for relief work.

Zhou Weiyan, executive chairman of the Foundation, said on Friday that by April 15, the foundation has received donations of 10.6 million yuan (about US$1.5 million) from all facets of society.

The number includes 648,287 yuan donated from about 600,000 mobile phone users, each donating one or two yuan through text messaging, he added.

Zhou said the Foundation allocated 100,000 yuan for disaster relief after the Pu'er earthquake in Yunnan Province last June, another 100,000 after the Shandong flooding last August, and donated 1 million yuan to the "Sunshine in your heart Project", a youth education program by the Red Cross Society of China.

It also allocated 1.1 million yuan to 17 provinces for immediate relief for the unprecedented snowstorms that hit central and southern parts of China between mid-January and February.

The One Foundation under partnership with the Red Cross Society of China calls for each person to donate at least one yuan each month, so that individual donations can be transformed into a much greater fund.

The foundation was founded on April 19, 2007 by action star Jet Li, who starred in Kiss of the Dragon in 2001, Hero in 2002 and a number of other kung fu movies.

Li's latest kung fu hit, "The Forbidden Kingdom" premiered in Beijing on April 16. The movie also stars Jackie Chan, another well-known kung fu star in China.

(Xinhua News Agency April 19, 2008)