A line 5 light rail train goes upon past a cotton field at Minhang district in Shanghai, China Tuesday 25 July 2006. China became the world's third-biggest food aid donor in 2005, the same year it stopped receiving assistance from the World Food Program, the United Nations agency said on Thursday 20 July 2006. The United States and the European Union remained the top two contributors. Donations from China almost tripled to 577,000 metric tons and accounted for more than half of the rise in overall food aid donations last year, the World Food Program said in its annual report. Most of China's aid went to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with the rest going to Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Sri Lanka and a dozen other countries, according to the WFP's report.
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