Special report: Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China

    BEIJING, May 15 -- More rescuers from the People's Liberation Army are heading toward the quake's epicenter Wenchuan County.

More rescuers from the People's Liberation Army are heading toward the quake's epicenter Wenchuan County.(Photo: CCTV.com) Photo Gallery>>>

    Speed boats carrying the rescuers have headed over a 20-kilometer river section on Wednesday.

    By 5 o'clock in the afternoon, over 1,000 soldiers had completed the over-water journey. They had to walk 65 kilometers on foot to reach Wenchuan.

    So far, more than 12,000 soldiers have been involved in rescue work in the quake-hit areas. And, PLA headquarters have ordered 30,000 more soldiers to rush to the quake-hit areas.

    (Source: CCTV.com) 

China parachutes 100 soldiers to cut-off quake area

    CHENGDU, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of 100 elite soldiers were parachuted on Wednesday afternoon into an area near the epicenter of Monday's earthquake in southwest China.

    The parachutists landed on 12:20 p.m. safely in the cut-off Maoxian county, northeast of the epicenter Wenchuan. Full story

China's railways transport 14,000 soldiers to quake-hit area

    BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Railways (MOR) said on Wednesday that 14,000 soldiers had so far been transported by 25 military trains to the quake-stricken Sichuan Province.

    Trains carrying 416 carriages of disaster-relief materials including 55,935 tents, 283 carriages of fuel and 12 carriages of food, were en route to the province, said the ministry. Full story