Chinese Government donates emergency aid package of grains, winter supplies, and medicines (Linked to Project ID#94568)

In September 2021, the Chinese Government agreed to donate $31 million (RMB 200 million) worth of emergency aid — including grains, winter supplies, COVID-19 vaccines, and medicines — to the Government of Afghanistan. On November 21, 2021, a train departed from Wuxi Station in Xinjiang, China to Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. The train is loaded with 1,000 tons of supplies to help Afghanistan combat winter. Among the supplies donated were cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes, blankets, naan, and milk tea powder. The train was expected to arrive in Afghanistan on December 3, 2021. Then, on December 8, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Afghanistan. One day later, on December 9, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Afghanistan. Then, on December 13, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 70,000 blankets and more than 40,000 down coats to the Government of Afghanistan. The Chinese Government delivered 600 tons of donated rice to the Government of Afghanistan on April 7, 2022. Then, in July 2022, the Chinese Government announced that it had fully implemented its September 2021 commitment. The December 8, 2021 Covid-19 vaccine donation has an estimated monetary value of $14.4 million and it is captured via Project ID#94565. The December 9, 2021 Covid-19 vaccine donation has an estimated monetary value of $3.6 million and it is captured via Project ID#94619. The estimated value of all of the remaining components of the emergency aid package is $13 million (as captured via Project ID#94567).

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