RICH, POOR OPEN PURSES
China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-22 07:43

From a garbage collector who needed a brick to write down a charity telephone number so that he could donate his day's earnings, to entrepreneurs and businessmen who pledged millions of yuan, a star-studded CCTV telethon on Tuesday raised a record 2.2 billion yuan for quake-stricken Qinghai province.
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