August 20, 2015

"China, a country which faces great challenges of natural disasters, plays a great role in helping strengthen international humanitarian responses and its humanitarian workers range from local volunteers who rescue their neighbors to expert teams who respond to international disasters, a senior UN official said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

'China is a country that faces great challenges, with storms, with floods, with earthquakes,' Kieran Dwyer, chief of communications for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told Xinhua ahead of World Humanitarian Day, which falls on Aug. 19."

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