Donations from China tripled to 636,000 tons with most of the aid going to ally North Korea. Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sri Lanka were among the other countries that recied donations, the World Food Program said in its annual report.
Although China still has major portions of undeveloped countryside it has mostly solved its own once-dire food shortages for which it received World Food Program aid itself.
A Chinese worker prepares relief goods bound for Pakistan at a Beijing airport Monday, in this Oct. 10, 2005, file photo. The goods were intended for victims of a massive earthquake in Pakistan. AP Photo, Pool, File via Yahoo News.
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