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Radios will help deliver quake news
By Wang Qian (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-04-16 07:47
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BEIJING - China National Radio is sending 5,000 radios to earthquake-hit Yushu in Northwest China's Qinghai province so the local residents can have access to the latest information about the situation.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu on Wednesday, claiming 617 lives as of Thursday morning, and injuring at least 9,110. The quake also destroyed most buildings and cut communications, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Of the 5,000 radios, 1,000 will be sent to rescue soldiers and to local government officials to help them keep up with the latest information about the quake.
Due to the difficulty in getting to quake-hit areas, the radios will be delivered from factories in Shenzhen. They will first go to Qinghai provincial government and the headquarters of the rescue teams, after which they will be distributed to local residents.
Since the radio demand is large and urgent, the radios will come from different factories and were different brands, with an average price of about 60 yuan ($8.80), Bao said.
A mobile control room has entered the quake-hit area to broadcast the latest information about the quake in both Mandarin and Tibetan. Some 95 percent of the residents in Qinghai are Tibetan.
China Daily
