President vows to rebuild quake-rocked zone

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President vows to rebuild quake-rocked zone

08:12, April 19, 2010      

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Quake relief in action

We are in Yushu; We are family

It's being called the largest rescue operation at such an altitude in human history, and the race against time in a hostile environment is taking its toll on those charged with saving as many lives as possible.

President Hu Jintao flew to the quake-hit Yushu region in northwest Qinghai Province Sunday to oversee relief operations there, as the death toll from last week's devastating earthquake climbed to more than 1,700.

Hu cut short his visit to Latin America to fly to the worst-hit town of Gyegu, following a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that struck Yushu on Wednesday. As of last night, 1,706 people had been confirmed dead, and there were more than 12,000 people injured with 256 still missing.

"There will be new schools! There will be new homes!" Hu was quoted by the Xinhua News Agency as saying as he wrote in chalk on the blackboard of a makeshift class-room in a tent while visiting orphaned students in Yushu.

"The top priority is to rescue those still buried alive and treat those injured. Each life must be cherished," Hu said.

With more than 15,000 rescuers - including over 11,000 People's Liberation Army troops and armed police, 2,800 firefighters and special police forces, and 1,500 earthquake and mine accident rescue specialists - still searching for quake survivors, Gao Mengtan, deputy dean of the Institute of Geophysics at the China Earthquake Adminis-tration, said the operation exceeds all previous large-scale rescue attempts at such a high altitude - about 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level.

As of Sunday, the government said, 17,000 lives had been saved.

Wu Heping, spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security, said Sunday in Beijing that "The social order of the disaster area is stable," adding that no criminal cases story or deaths caused by traffic crashes had been reported.

Yushu airport, which began operating last year, and a highway that underwent maintenance last year have become transportation lifelines during the rescue operation.


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Relief supplies come to quake-hit survivors

08:59, April 19, 2010      

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A flood of urgently needed aid has reached Yushu, the epicenter of a devastating 7.1 magnitude quake, including enough food and shelter for tens of thousands of suddenly homeless.

The surge in aid coincided with the arrival of Chinese President Hu Jintao Sunday, who cut short an official trip to South America to deal with the disaster at home.

The quake Wednesday have grabbed the lives of 1,706 people and injured 12,128, said the official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday.

President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have promised that the government was doing everything they could to help the mostly ethnic Tibetan quake victims in Yushu County, West China.

“On Sunday, after days of sleeping in makeshift shelters, with ice forming on blankets during the frigid nights, nearly all survivors finally had proper tents and enough food and clean water to last at least a few days”, the Associated Press reporters on the site wrote in a latest report they filed.

Zou Ming, head of disaster relief at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, told a news conference in Beijing that most survivors now had tents, basic food and clean water.
Government-issued blue tents that were sparsely dotted around town in recent days popped up in abundance on Sunday. Some families set them up next to the ruins of their flattened mud-brick homes.

In one corner of the tent camps was Genyao, 65, and his more than 20 family members. He pushed back the flap of one of their four tents to reveal two dozen cases of water, instant noodles and canned meat. Nearby, two blackened pots bubbled on top of a stove made from concrete blocks.

"It's manageable. The country cares about us," said Genyao, who goes by one name, a smile creasing his weather-beaten face. But, he pointed out, "The pots, the blankets, those we pulled out of the rubble of our house ourselves."

China Central Television showed Hu visiting a similar scene, the camera panning over stacks of food boxes and a crate of water in the corner.

"I guarantee the party and the government will help you build a new home and make sure your children can return to school as soon as possible," Hu said.

Meanwhile, the Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee on Sunday called for maintenance of stability in the quake-hit regions in Yushu to create a favorable setting for quake relief and reconstruction.

In a circular released Sunday, the committee ordered local police to step up patrols of key areas and timely solve disputes to maintain social stability and unity among different ethnic groups there.

The committee urged a severe crackdown on theft, robbery, sabotage of relief supplies, and disruption of market order, so as to make all quake survivors feel safe.

By People's Daily Online 

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