(4 Aug 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Chinese plane carrying aid for Pakistan flood victims taxiing at Chaklala Air Base in Rawalpindi
2. Close of Chinese flag on plane tail wing
3. Various of aid items being unloaded from Chinese plane
4. Various of tents sent from China being unloaded
5. Close up label on tent: China Aid with Chinese flag
5. Tents being unloaded
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liu Jian, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan:
"To show our solidarity and our good sentiments, Chinese government decided to provide the Pakistani government with humanitarian emergency goods worth 10 million Renminbi, which include water filtration equipment, electronic generators, tents and medicines."
7. Second Chinese plane carrying aid taxiing on tarmac after arrival
8. Relief items being unloaded
9. Wide of crates of Chinese aid
10. Tents in back of luggage truck being taken away from plane
STORYLINE
China delivered humanitarian aid worth approximately 1.48 (m) million US dollars to Pakistan on Wednesday to help the victims of Pakistan's flooding.
The country's aid supplies, which included water filtration equipment, electronic generators, tents and medicines, arrived on Wednesday at the Chaklala Air Base in Rawalpindi.
Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Liu Jian, said that his country had sent the aid to show its "solidarity" with flood victims.
"Chinese government decided to provide the Pakistani government with humanitarian emergency goods worth 10 million Renminbi," he added.
Floodwaters continued ravaging hundreds of villages in Pakistan, destroying homes, soaking crops, and threatening more lives.
Aid workers warned that bloated rivers would soon surge into the country's south, prompting more evacuations.
This year's monsoon season has prompted the worst flooding in Pakistan in living memory and already killed more than 1,500 people.
The UN scrambled to provide food and other assistance to some 3.2 (m) million affected people in a nation already struggling with an Islamist militancy and a poor economy.
The loss of farm produce is one reason the UN has warned of serious food shortages, and the World Food Program has estimated that 1.8 (m) million people will need to be fed over the next month.
Rescue workers have struggled to deliver aid because of washed-out bridges and roads and downed communication lines.
Several foreign countries have stepped in to help, including the United States, which announced on Tuesday that it was sending six large military helicopters from Afghanistan to help with the relief effort.
But many flood victims have complained that aid is not reaching them fast enough or at all.
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