People from all walks of life in Hong Kong have donated 50 million yuan for a project offering free treatment for cataract sufferers in rural areas in the mainland since 1997.

The project involves a mobile medical team on a three-carriage train. The second such train was donated today to the mainland by Hong Kong at the Beijing West Railway Station. Vice-premier Li Lanqing and Tung Chee-hwa, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, attended the ceremony.

The train, which comes replete with telecommunications systems, medical and video-teaching equipment, has left for the city of Zunyi in southwest China's Guizhou Province to cure cataract sufferers.