Mainland donations of essential equipment and supplies continue to foster foreign relations, Fang Aiqing reports.

Chinese entrepreneurs have been joining hands with the Beijing-based Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to support the global battle against COVID-19.

Six enterprises from the private sector donated urgently needed supplies to Morocco, Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia on April 20.

The donations included nucleic acid test kits, fast test kits, surgical masks, antibacterial cleaning solutions and traditional Chinese medicine products, with a total value of about 4.66 million yuan ($658,500).