China Sunday handed over 10 million yuan (US$1.25 million) worth of relief materials to quake-hit Indonesia in Yogyakarta.

 

Tan Weiwen, minister counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia, and Paku Alam IX, vice governor of D. I. Yogyakarta, attended the hand-over ceremony, representing their respective central government.

 

The goods, weighing about 100 tons, include medicine, medical equipment, tents, mattresses, sheets and power generators.

 

The vice governor thanked the Chinese government and people for the aid, saying it is very timely and practical for Indonesia's quake relief work.

 

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Yogyakarta and surrounding areas on May 27, killing over 6,000 people, injuring thousands of others and leaving nearly 200,000 homeless.

 

Before sending the relief materials, the Chinese government had offered US$2 million of aid in cash to Indonesia and sent a 40-member relief team composed of seismological experts and medical workers to the country's hardest-hit Bantul district.

 

(Xinhua News Agency June 5, 2006)