Special
report: Strong
Earthquake Jolts SW China
CHENGDU, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers reached the remotest quake-hit
villages in mountainous Sichuan Province on Monday, a week after the
8.0-magnitude earthquake that it's feared could claim more than 50,000 lives.
Li Chengyun, vice governor of Sichuan, told reporters
here that the rescuers had arrived at all 3,669 quake-affected villages in
Sichuan as of 2:28 p.m. on Monday, with the last 77 villages getting help since
midnight on Sunday.
President Hu orders rescuers to reach
every quake-hit village by "every available means"
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) comforts
a baby at a relief center in Shifang city, southwest China's Sichuan
Province, May 18, 2008. President Hu, also general secretary of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the
Central Military Commission (CMC), arrived in Shifang City to console the
victims and rescuers on Sunday morning.(Xinhua Photo)
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SHIFANG, Sichuan, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese
President Hu Jintao on Sunday asked rescuers to use "every available means" to
reach every village affected by the May 12 earthquake in southwest China.
"We must try every method to send rescuers to every
quake-hit village, instead of just working in towns and cities, since a large
number of soldiers have entered the quake-hit regions," said Hu, while visiting
Yinghua township of Shifang city, Sichuan Province. Full story
Last quake-stranded Taiwan tourists
rescued
CHENGDU, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The last three members of a
Taiwan tourist group stranded in quake-hit Sichuan were transported to the
provincial capital Monday.
They landed at 5:30 p.m. at Chengdu aboard a military
helicopter. Full story
Psychological services for China's
traumatized quake survivors in full swing
MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 19 (Xinhua) -- China's largest ever
psychological service operation for survivors of a natural disaster is in full
swing, a week after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the southwestern Sichuan
Province.
In a temporary residence site for earthquake victims in
west China's Mianyang City, Dr Wang Ningxia, a psychologist faced an
eight-year-old girl Qiao Xi, who was traumatized and unable to speak after
experiencing the tragic disaster. Full story
China accepts foreign medical teams to
help relief work in quake zone
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- China has
agreed that foreign medical teams could come to China to help relief work in the
wake of the massive earthquake in southwest Sichuan Province, said Qin Gang,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, here on Monday. Full story
