Monday, May 26, 2008

Jay Chou's Chongqing concert ends, raised 30 million to rebuild the disaster area


Yesterday night "Jay Chou's charity concert in Chongqing" was held at the Olympics Centre in Chongqing. Before the opening, after donating 500,000 earlier Jay Chou donated another 1 million yuan to the earthquake disaster area. On the night entrepreneurs, fans and people from all walks of life gave to charity, at the venue they raised over 29 million yuan, all of it will go to the Chongqing Charity Federation to help rebuild the disaster area.

Jay Chou arrived in Chongqing on the 23rd of May to prepare for his concert, he announced the concert had been changed to a charity performance, the commercial events and celebration party after the concert were all cancelled.

Yesterday night at Jay Chou's concert, Julie Su and Zhou Hui both participated in performing. Julie Su sang "Hold Hands", "Dear Baby", the lyrics affected everyone's feelings, the 40,000 people offstage all sang together. Zhou Hui on the other hand sang "Promise" and "Don't Cry" to comfort everyone, original guest performers Nan Quan Mama also changed songs and performed "Not Far From Home".

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Jay-Chou-s-Chongqing-concert-ends-raised-30-million-to-rebuild-the-disaster-area-talk544567.html

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