MONROVIA, December 12 (LINA) - The Zibo Hongye Shangqin Plastic and Rubber Company based in Shandong Province, Republic of China has donated 50,000 pairs of disposable medical protective gloves to the Government of Liberia to enhance its fight against the Ebola virus.
Making the presentation to Liberia’s Ambassador to China, D. McKinley Thomas at the Liberian Embassy in Beijing Thursday, the company’s General Manager, Mr. James Ren, put the cost of the donation at RMB
$230,000 or US$ 38,000.
A dispatch from the Liberian Embassy in China quotes Ren as saying the donation was in response to the letter addressed to the World by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, which was shared with them by the Ambassador during his visit to the company’s headquarters in Shandong Province.
“Zibo Hongye Shangqin Plastic and Rubber Company as a responsible and caring global corporation would demonstrate support to the new Ambassador and his country in the fight to stop the further spread of Ebola; in addition to donating these gloves, we will also pay for their shipment to Liberia.”
Receiving the items, Ambassador Thomas thanked the company’s management for the donation, noting “the gesture will long be remembered and appreciated by the President, the Government and the people of Liberia.”
He noted that the timely support from the Government and people of China is indeed making a significant impact in helping to eradicate
the disease from Liberia and the other affected countries.
The company also known as the HongChin Plastic Rubber Company, is a Chinese foreign joint venture company established in 2003, with 16 production lines and an annual production capacity of about 2 billion pieces of medical and protective PVC gloves, which are exported to
many countries around the world, including England, Germany and the United States of America.
LINA