Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce of P.R.C, indicated on the 11th of this month in "the Activity at the 30th Anniversary of Multi-bilateral assistance to China and the 1st Anniversary of International Aid to the Earthquake-stricken Area in Wenchuan" that the relevant United Nations agencies and relevant national governments will arrange about 100 million U.S. dollars aid to fund the restoration and reconstruction work in disaster areas.

Chen Deming expressed his gratitude in the activity for the post-earthquake emergency rescue and post-disaster reconstruction support to the disaster areas by the providers of multi-bilateral development assistance. He pointed out that after the devastating earthquake in Wenchuan last year, the international community lent a helping hand in time, the relevant United Nations agencies and the government of the donor country provided a lot of emergency disaster relief materials to the earthquake areas in China, and promised to arrange aid funds to support the restoration and reconstruction work in disaster areas.

Khalid Malik, the UN resident coordinator in China, said that besides the post-disaster reconstruction work, the UN will still continue to help China in the aspect of fund ability construction of the specified management organization and the introduction of international disaster mitigation experience in order to better respond to other possible disasters that are resulted from climate changes in the future.

In June 1979, China signed a basic technical cooperation agreement with the United Nations Development Program, officially began to carry out cooperation in the field of development and assistance with the United Nations service development system. In October 1981, China signed the first agreement on bilateral technical cooperation development program with Australia, which indicated that China started to accept bilateral aid from the developed countries.

Chen Deming pointed out that in the past three decades, China's international multi-bilateral development assistance cooperation has made great achievements. Up to now, China has accepted multi-bilateral non-reimbursable assistance of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars, and implemented nearly 2000 projects, which covers more than 30 fields such as poverty alleviation, environmental protection, education, health, energy and the like.

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