(4 Jan 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Various of volunteers sitting at table, talking on phone
2. Various of girl in wheelchair giving money to volunteer
3. Machine counting money
4. Girl receiving gratitude letter from Red Cross staff
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Voxpop, Donor: "Everyone should have love and sympathy."
6. Senior Vice President of Lenovo, Wang Xiaoyan (in black) with head of Chinese Red cross, Peng Peiyun (in green), holding check
7. Check of 500 thousand USD
8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Xiaoyan, Senior Vice President of Lenovo:
"We think this sum of money is not a small one for our company. We think we need to do a better job and offer better service to the costumers to guarantee the interests of the shareholders of our company."
9. Head of Chinese Red Cross, Peng Peiyun presenting certificate to Wang Xiaoyan
10. Red Cross representative giving speech
11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Guo Changjiang, vice chairman of the Chinese Red Cross:
"China is a country with responsibility, and this responsibility relies with the government, as well as the Chinese people."
12. Officials at the ceremony
STORYLINE
From farmers to millionaires, Chinese from all walks of life are digging deep into their pockets to help victims of Southeast Asia''s
devastating earthquake and tsunamis in one of the country''s largest fund-raising efforts in recent history.
Nine days after the disaster struck, 25 million yuan (three million US dollars) in cash and pledges has been collected in Chinese Red Cross donation boxes in the capital of Beijing and over the telephone.
The figure is expected to rise significantly in the coming days.
Volunteers have been working 24 hours a day to take donations over the telephone.
A Chinese computer company, Lenovo, also donated 500-thousand US dollars.
John Sparrow, a spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Beijing, praised the Chinese people for being "very, very fast in coming up with their support."
The largest individual pledge so far came from an anonymous Chinese businessman who gave 1 million yuan (US$122,000), Sparrow said.
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