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China has sent aid to neighbor Malaysia after the Southeast Asian nation was hit with torrential rains that resulted in intense flooding in the last week of December last year.
Shen Jinke from the People's Liberation Army Air Force told the Global Times that two IL-76 aircraft have already gone back to China after delivering assistance to the flood-stricken nation.
The Chinese government would be sending 2,950 tents, 400 water pumps, 45 water horses, 220 generators and 60 water purification units, reported The Sun Daily. Some of these have already been sent via the two aircraft that just returned. Others are scheduled to arrive in Malaysia by this week.
Malaysia will also receive 400 temporary housing units from China where evacuees could settle while waiting for the flood to subside.
The Southeast Asian nation has been hit with a strong "monsoon" rain toward the tail-end of 2014. The non-stop rain has forced more than 200,000 people from the northeastern provinces of Terengganu, Pahang and Kelantan to evacuate as water continued to rise in their areas.
Other countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have been hit badly as well and many are still in evacuation areas.
Apart from the supplies, the Chinese government is also donating humanitarian aid of 20 million yuan ($3.26 million) to Malaysia and Sri Lanka to help them in their relief operations.
The Red Cross Society of China also sent 620,455 yuan ($100,000) to the Malaysian Red Crescent as additional aid for the victims through the help of Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang.
China's PLA Air Force has been very active in sending international relief for the past years. The group has been to Pakistan, Thailand and Mongolia in the past to deliver aid needed. Just recently, the PLA Air Force went to Maldives to deliver water after the country experienced water shortage.
