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Mainland official: mobile homes are safe

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-08-19 15:47

A cargo ship loaded with 100 makeshift houses in initial relief aid offered by Chinese mainland docks at Kaohsiung port in east China's Taiwan Province, August 18, 2009. A spokesman for the Chinese State Council's Taiwan office reassured that mobile homes donated to Taiwan to help the island recover from Typhoon Morokat are in fact safe. [Xinhua]

A spokesman for the Chinese State Council's Taiwan office reassured that mobile homes donated to Taiwan to help the island recover from Typhoon Morokat are in fact safe.

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The homes are of the top quality, the spokesman, Fan Liqing said in a news conference today, the China News Service reported.

"They (mobile homes) are produced according to Taiwan's design standard, and all of them were strictly checked and tested before transporting to the island," Fan said. She was responding to concerns that the homes might contain high levels of formaldehyde.

So far, the mainland has donated 176 million yuan ($25.9 million) and disaster-relief materials worth 25 million yuan ($3.7 million) to Taiwan.