Beijing Municipal Social Relief Affairs Management Center has announced that they will enhance their relief efforts and take major action across the city to help wanderers and beggars come in out of the cold.

AmeriCares has opened a second field hospital in Sichuan Province — in Wenchuan County, which was the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 69,000 people and left approximately 5 million homeless.

Dubai-based Emirates is donating 13,000 of its First and Business Class blankets to support the relief efforts in Sichuan. The consignment will be transported in two batches to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and further to Chengdu by train from Shanghai Yangpu Cargo Service Station. The first consignment of the blankets has already touched down at [...]

Since the day after the earthquake struck Sichuan, Cargill China has been mobilizing its resources to collect funds for the relief efforts by initiating a worldwide fundraising campaign among its businesses and employees.

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced that the company is donating more than CNY10 million in additional water and medical equipment to hospitals and communities in earthquake impacted areas in Chengdu, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.

Yum! Restaurants China, the brand owner of fast food restaurants KFC and Pizza Hut, says that in the coming year both KFC and Pizza Hut will give priority in hiring job seekers from the earthquake areas in Sichuan.

Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel donated RMB270,717.26 to Shanghai Red Cross, which was the hotel's 15% service charge and part of the staff salary from May 19 to 21. Xie Lijuan, president of Shanghai Red Cross, received the check from Xie Xiaoyun, deputy general manager of Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel Co., Ltd, and hotel manager Rodney [...]