Mainland students benefit from HK assistance   

香港援助内地教育医疗 3000多内地学生获资助

华夏基金会30周年慈善庆典晚会6日在港举行。晚会上，香港社会各界继续向内地贫困地区的教育、医疗事业伸出援助之手，把一张张支票交给了华夏基金会。

Hong Kong (CNS)-- More than 3,000 poverty-stricken students on the Chinese mainland have benefited from assistance provided by the Huaxia Foundation, a Hong Kong-based charity organization.

Founded in 1982, Huaxia Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to supporting the development of education and medical endeavors in poverty-stricken areas of the mainland.

Over 280 mainland schools have benefited from Huaxia projects worth 200 million yuan (32.6 million US dollars), according to the chairman of the foundation, speaking at a dinner to celebrate the foundation's 30th anniversary on Thursday.

The foundation will remain committed to integrating the resources of Hong Kong with the mainland to help more students, the chairman added.

The dinner was also attended by Hong Kong's chief executive Leung Chun-ying, CPPCC vice chairman Tung Chee Hwa, and Zhang Xiaoming, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong SAR.