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Donations for SARS Control Flood Beijing

Donations have been pouring in from across China to aid the capital city's fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic.

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Donations have been pouring in from across China to aid the capital city's fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic.

Monday witnessed the arrival in Beijing of 1.74 million yuan (about 209,630 US dollars) worth of materials, including vegetables,health-care products and flowers, from southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Since it began accepting donations on April 26, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs has received a total of 200 million yuan (about 24.1 million dollars) in money and 50 million yuan (about 6.02 million dollars) in material donations from otherareas of the country.

"Beijing is experiencing the largest scale of donations to the city since 1949," said Wu Wenyan, deputy director of the civil affairs bureau.

Wu, who has been busy handling the donations, said more large donations are coming, including some from foreign governments.

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