Jay Chou donates 500,000 to be used in Liangping to help those affected by the disaster

When the popular star Jay Chou heard about the massive earthquake that hit Sichuan, he expressed his concern for the citizens affected. Yesterday while he was still abroad he promised that he would be donating 500,000 yuan in his own name to the people in the earthquake disaster area, he also wrote down a few words to represent his blessing and has asked us to give it to the people.

The person in charge of the committee for Jay Chou's concert in Chongqing Mr Chen yesterday expressed that after hearing the news of the earthquake in the afternoon yesterday, Jay Chou became very concerned about the situation of the people at the disaster area. Starting from 3pm, he constantly called Mr Chen wanting to find out more details. But due to the fact the communications line in our city were cut, he couldn't get through to Mr Chen. He only got through to Mr Chen's mobile at about 1am yesterday.

Jay Chou was very saddened after finding out about the news that 5 people already died with 15 teachers injured when the building of a primary school at our city Liangping collapsed from the earthquake, at the same time 17 people were also injured when the dorms of the primary school collapsed to different degrees. He immediately expressed that he will be donating 500,000 yuan in his own name to the disaster area of Liangping, it will be mainly used to treat the dead and injured students and their family, it will be used to give them relief. Besides this, they will keep a portion of the funds to rebuild the collapsed school. Mr Chen also expressed that the workers from the committee will be rushing to Liangping today to personally hand over the Jay Chou's 500,000 yuan to the local government department there. This article is translated by http://www.jaychoustudio.com

In order to give his blessing to the people at the disaster areas, yesterday Jay Chou especially sent back a personal message from abroad: "I hope the people at the disaster areas can make it past this difficult situation, I hope the children at the disaster have escaped the danger." He asked us to give his blessing to the children at the disaster areas.

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