A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Saturday that news reporting on the Yushu earthquake relief efforts should be timely, accurate, comprehensive and objective.
The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) said Saturday the country's trade unions at all levels had donated more than 15 million yuan (US$2.2 million) for the northwest quake-hit Qinghai Province.
Food, drinking water, and cold-proof tents, quilts and clothes are in short supply in the remote, mountainous Chinese town flattened by a devastating earthquake earlier this week, local officials said Saturday
Slideshow of Qinghai earthquake relief works
China's vice transport minister said Saturday all roads to quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province were clear.
Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) rescued 1,200 people and treated more than 8,700 injured in the quake zone as of 12:00 a.m. Saturday.
Seven planes shuttle between the quake-hit Yushu prefecture and Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, every day, carrying supplies, rescuers and injured people after a devastating earthquake rocked the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, an official said here Saturday.
At least 200 trained rescuers were forced to leave a remote mountainous quake zone in northwest China after they exhibited signs of altitude sickness, local officials said Saturday.
High altitudes averaging 3,700 meters, bitter cold nights and a language barrier are posing major challenges for rescue and relief efforts under way in quake-hit Yushu.
Lying on a tiny bed in the corridor of the Sichuan Provincial Emergency Center in the provincial capital of Sichuan, a Tibetan named Drolma, 82, prayed alone for the deceased in her quake-battered home county of Yushu in Qinghai province.
Rescue workers and local monks join forces to pull young survivor from collapsed building
The death toll has climbed to 1,339 from a devastating earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai province, with another 332 still missing, rescuers said Saturday.
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