BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The One Foundation
Project, initiated by Chinese kung fu star Jet Li in 2007, has raised over 10
million yuan in its first year, and has allocated 2.3 million yuan for relief
work.
Zhou Weiyan, executive chairman of the Foundation,
said on Friday that by April 15, the foundation has received donations of 10.6
million yuan (about 1.5 million U.S. dollars) from all facets of society.
The number includes 648,287 yuan donated from about
600,000 mobile phone users, each donating one or two yuan through text
messaging, he added.
Zhou said the Foundation allocated 100,000 yuan for
disaster relief after the Pu'er earthquake in Yunnan Province last June, another
100,000 after the Shandong flooding last August, and donated 1 million yuan to
the "Sunshine in your heart Project", a youth education program by the Red Cross
Society of China.
It also allocated 1.1 million yuan to 17 provinces
for immediate relief for the unprecedented snowstorms that hit central and
southern parts of China between mid-January and February.
The One Foundation under partnership with the Red
Cross Society of China calls for each person to donate at least one yuan each
month, so that individual donations can be transformed into a much greater fund.
The foundation was founded on April 19, 2007 by
action star Jet Li, who starred in Kiss of the Dragon in 2001, Hero in 2002 and
a number of other kung fu movies.
Li's latest kung fu hit, "The Forbidden Kingdom"
premiered in Beijing on April 16. The movie also stars Jackie Chan, another
well-known kung fu star in China.