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Sumitomo Rubber Group Donates 2M CNY to China Charity Federation in Support of Efforts to Combat Novel Coronavirus

 Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Sumitomo Rubber (China) Co., Ltd., our group's holding company in the People's Republic of China, has donated two-million Chinese Yuan (approximately 32M JPY) to the China Charity Federation* in support of this charitable organization's ongoing efforts to provide relief to those who are suffering from pneumonia and other ailments caused by the recently discovered novel strain of coronavirus that continues to spread in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan (Hubei Province) and beyond.

All of us at the Sumitomo Rubber Group are praying for the speedy recovery of everyone who has contracted this new strain of coronavirus as well as a swift end to this tragic epidemic.

*The China Charity Foundation is a nationwide non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organization that was established with the official approval of the Chinese government. It is one of the largest and most influential charitable organizations in the People's Republic of China.