(cnhubei.com) Dongfeng Motor Corporation (DFMC) yesterday donated vehicles worth of 2 million Yuan (US$242,000) to State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping to support Mount. Everest survey project.

Vehicles DFMA donates will play an important role in carrying scientists and measurement instruments to the camp with an altitude of over 6,000 meters.

China plans to re-measure the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest from March 20 to June 20, 2005, because of fears it may be shrinking.

Miao Yu, general manager of the company, and Chen Bangzhu, director of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping attended the donation ceremony.

With its headquarter in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, DFMA is one of the three big automotive groups in China.