The COVID-19 epidemic is posing an extremely serious challenge worldwide. To promote international cooperation in virus prevention and control, Beijing Foreign Affairs Office has encouraged and supported the actions taken by the city's NGOs to help the countries in need to get through this tough period together.

Beijing Peaceland Foundation contacted the Iranian Embassy in China on February 22 and expressed its intention of donation to help the Iranian people fight the epidemic. With the approval of the embassy, the foundation donated 1,000 nucleic acid test kits, two tons of bromine disinfectant and other anti-epidemic supplies on February 25, which were promptly shipped to the country by the Iranian Embassy in China and its Consulate General in Shanghai.

Beijing New Sunshine Charity Foundation, which had donated large quantities of anti-epidemic supplies and funds to Hubei Province, purchased 50 oxygenerators and 500 oximeters immediately after the outbreak in Iran, which had been shipped to Tehran via the Iranian Embassy in China and its Consulate General in Guangzhou.

The Iranian Embassy deeply appreciated the assistance provided by Beijing-based NGOs. It stated on its official Weibo account that the two countries' cooperation in the fight against the epidemic will leave a memorable chapter in the history of their friendship.

On February 28, Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce in Beijing launched the Reciprocate-the-Kindness initiative to purchase and donate medical supplies to Italy through the Chinese community there. Noting that there were hundreds of thousands of Wenzhou compatriots in Italy, the Chamber of Commerce hoped to do something to help them and the locals get through the difficulties together. Besides, knowing that Greece was in need of anti-epidemic materials, it also provided aid through the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) to support the overseas Chinese and Greeks in fighting the epidemic together.