Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) Ruling Kuomintang Vice Chairman John Chiang met Thursday in the Chinese city of Xian with a Chinese elementary school girl who sent 20 Chinese yuan (NT$96) to help people in southern Taiwan who were affected by Typhoon Morakot in early August, a news agency in China reported that day. Chiang expressed gratitude to Yang Zhuoxi, a sixth grader at an elementary school in the city, for her concern for the typhoon victims, according to China News Service.
Yang reportedly decided to make the donation after watching TV news showing the scenes of destruction in Siaolin village in Kaohsiung County by typhoon-triggered landslides.
She then saved her lunch money for more than 10 days to raise the donation.
Chiang also gave Yang a biography about himself and encouraged her to read more, according to the report.
Chiang promised to treat her to a variety of Taiwanese delicacies should she visit Taiwan and told her that Taiwan has a widely diverse culture.
Using "blood is thicker than water" idiom to describe the ethnic kinship between Taiwan and China, Chiang said this was illustrated by the mutual support extended to each other in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake in China last year and Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan.
Taiwan made about NT$6.4 billion-worth of relief donations to earthquake-devastated areas in Sichuan, of which NT$1.1 million was donated by a single veteran who handed over his life savings for the cause.
In response to the disaster inflicted on Taiwan by the typhoon, China was no less generous in offering material assistance and donations, Chiang went on.
(By Y.L. Kao)
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