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After Quake, Donors Shun Aid Groups Run by ChinaReutersA woman crying in Sichuan Province on Sunday after a quake struck southwest China over the weekend. Donations poured in afterward, but many donors were looking to use private charity groups. By EDWARD WONGPublished: April 22, 2013 FacebookTwitterGoogle+SaveE-mailSharePrintReprintsBEIJING — The devastating earthquake that struck southwest China over the weekend has drawn a flood of donations from across the country. RelatedSurviving China’s Latest Earthquake, but Afraid to Go Home (April 21, 2013) Connect With Us on TwitterFollow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.Twitter List: Reporters and EditorsEnlarge This ImageAly Song/ReutersBuildings were damaged in Baoxing County. Enlarge This ImageJason Lee/ReutersMen ran from a landslide’s debris on Monday. But in contrast to the pattern after a major quake in the same region five years ago, those eager to bolster relief efforts are looking to donate to private charity organizations, not to official groups that now have a reputation for corruption. The Red Cross Society of China, a state-run organization that is one of the country’s largest charities, has yet to recover from a 2011 scandal that struck a serious blow to China’s nascent notions of philanthropy, especially efforts guided by the government. “Compared to the opaque system that most state-supported charity organizations have, nongovernmental organizations and the newly emerged so-called microcharities follow a more transparent system,” said Deng Guosheng, the director of the NGO Research Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing. On its microblog, the Red Cross said that as of 5 p.m. Sunday, it had received more than $10 million. One private group, SinaMicrocharities, reported collecting more than $13 million, according to Global Times, a state-run newspaper. On Monday, relief and rescue efforts continued in the broad area around Ya’an in Lushan County of Sichuan Province, the epicent