BUDAPEST, April 11 (Xinhua) -- China National Machinery Imp. & Exp. Corporation (CMC) has donated 30,000 surgical masks to Kaposvar, a city in the southwestern part of Hungary, the company said in a press release on Saturday.

The donation will support the local government and the people of Kaposvar in their fight against the novel coronavirus, said the release, adding that the CMC believes the city will win the war against the COVID-19 pandemic.

"A friend in need is a friend indeed. It warms my heart to receive the medical supplies in this time," Kaposvar's mayor Karoly Szita said after receiving the donation.

The CMC made a 100-million-euro investment in Kaposvar in 2019 to build a photovoltaic power plant. Work on the solar farm is scheduled to be complete this year.

"We laid the ground stone of the project last year. And now the construction is at around 50 percent. There is no delay despite the virus, and I am sure we will be ready in 2020," said Szita.