Society
Japanese donate library to quake-hit school in Sichuan
By Huang Zhiling (China Daily Sichuan Bureau)
Updated: 2010-04-14 17:41
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 Tamio Mori (center), mayor of Nagaoka City, Japan, donates 4,315 Chinese books on science, child literature, Chinese and foreign literature to Zhao Lin, headmistress of the quake-hit Kuiguang School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Tuesday. [Photo/Huang Zhiling] |
DUJIANGYAN: Two years after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 wreaked havoc here, 9-year-old Zhao Fei, a third grader in the Kuiguang Primary School, can check out books in the school’s newly built library.
"I like reading science books. Today, Japanese friends will donate books to my school," the boy said.
After the earthquake, Mori Building, a leading real estate development company in Japan, donated 2 million yuan (US$294,118) to the Kuiguang Primary School to build a library.
On Tuesday, Tamio Mori, mayor of Nagaoka, Japan, donated 4,315 popular science, children's literature, Chinese, foreign literature and cartoon books to the school on behalf of his city. His friend, Akio Yoshimura, president of Mori Building China (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., donated a copier to the on behalf of Mori Building.
Nagaoka is known as the home of former Japanese Prime Ministe Tanaka Kakuei. On October 24, 2004, a magnitude- 6.8 earthquake took place in the city, killing 4 people and injurying 300.
Mayor Xu Fuyi mayor said he hoped more than 1,000 children in the school would read books after class to broaden their horizon
Thanks to assistance from the Shanghai municipal government and enthusiastic support from the international community, the city’s schools have been restored and improved.
