'No hidden strings tied to aid'

By Bao Chang and Ding Qingfen | China Daily | Updated: 2011-04-27 07:58

A patient shakes hands with Chinese ophthalmology expert Liu Hua who had helped treat him at a hospital in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, in January as Zhang Mao (center), China's vice-minister of health, looks on. An ophthalmology center funded by China opened at the hospital on the same day. Yin Ke / Xinhua

BEIJING - China will endeavor to "enlarge the scale" of its foreign aid, especially to the least-developed countries of Africa and Latin America, in an attempt to improve local people's well-being, said Fu Ziying, the vice-minister of commerce, on Tuesday.