BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) received 165 million yuan (about 23 million U.S. dollars) worth of donations from home and abroad in 2007, up 75 percent over the previous year, a CRCF official said.

    CRCF has distributed 98.7 million yuan (about 14 million U.S. dollars) of the donations to its two programs which benefited more than 1 million Chinese, according to CRCF secretary-general Wang Rupeng.

    About 83 million yuan (about 11.5 million U.S. dollars) were used in a healthcare program, known as "The Red Cross Angel," which helped 4,223 children with leukemia and congenital heart diseases in medical treatment past year.

    The other program, "All-love education assistance program", used 15.2 million yuan (about 2.1 million U.S. dollars) for building 34 primary schools, training 100 rural teachers and assisting 788 poor university students in 2007.

    Wang said CRCF planned to raise 100 million yuan (about 13.8 million U.S. dollars) for the two programs in 2008.