Donations flood in from mainland China for Hong Kong attack victims

Millions of yuan raised for families of man set on fire and cleaner killed by blow to the head

While contributors are sincere, mainland media is not giving the full picture of events in the city, analyst says

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Actor Huang Xiaoming has contributed to a fund set up to for families of people attacked – one fatally – during unrest in Hong Kong. Photo: Imaginechina

Published: 8:07pm, 21 Nov 2019Updated: 9:32am, 22 Nov 2019

One of China’s highest-paid actors is among the tens of thousand of people on the Chinese mainland donating to funds for the families of two Hong Kong men attacked during unrest in the city.

By Thursday, more than 100,000 mainlanders, including actor Huang Xiaoming, had contributed to the funds set up by the media and Chinese charities.

One of the men, 57-year-old Lee Chi-cheung, was torched amid a dispute with a group of masked protesters on November 11.

Lee’s wife appeared on CGTN, the English-language arm of the official state broadcaster CCTV, and the video went viral on Chinese social media on Monday.

The other man, a 70-year-old cleaner, died on November 14, a day after being hit on the head by a brick during a clash between protesters and residents in the Hong Kong border town of Sheung Shui.

Within eight hours of its launch, a fund set up by the Shanghai Charity Foundation and several media organisations raised more than 2 million yuan (US$284,000) for the families.

Another fund launched by the China Social Welfare Foundation and newspaper Global Times received more than 1.5 million yuan from 78,000 people.

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