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Baby products donated to women

The China Population Welfare Foundation announced in May that this year it was donating over 4,000 boxes containing baby products worth up to 2 million yuan ($290,000) to pregnant women from two poverty-stricken counties in northwestern China's Gansu province and Central China's Hubei province. It also said it would hold training classes for local obstetricians. Foundation director Hao Linna said the event aimed to help reduce the cost of parenting babies in poor families and guarantee the health of mothers and infants.

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