Monday, September 11, 2000, updated at 16:29(GMT+8)
China
Japan Offers Aids to China's Poverty-stricken Area
The Japanese government gave 76,114 US dollars to Laiwu, a city in north China's Shandong Province, Monday to buy medical equipment.
The representatives of the two countries signed a document verifying the aid. The money will be used to buy advanced medical equipment so that diseases common among old people there can be prevented or cured, and the level of local medical care improved.
Long Yongtu, chief negotiator of China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and Sakutaro Tanino, Japanese ambassador to China, attended the ceremony.