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In April 2020, Xi'an Municipality provided anti-pandemic materials worth RMB 600,000 (Rs 10.8 million) to Nepal. The donation included 30,000 disposable medical masks, 1,000 N95 masks, 500 protective suits, 100 goggles, 30 forehead thermometers, and a ventilator. The medical supplies will be used in hospitals in Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City, Kathmandu and Dhulikhel. The medical supplies are being provided through the Trans-Himalayan Friendship Society Nepal and will be handed over to the Government of Nepal soon, Society president Prof Dr Rajiv Kumar Jha said. Jha said Xi'an Municipality was supplying the medical goods to the government through the Embassy of Nepal in China. Xi'an Municipality and Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City had established sister city relations during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Nepal in 2019.