Help from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao is ready to support rescue and relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Yushu of Northwest China's Qinghai province.
A Hong Kong volunteer dies while trying to save earthquake victims in Yushu, China's Qinghai province.
China's Health Ministry said Thursday the health sector had treated 4,910 people injured in the quake, among which 846 cases were severe as of 5 pm.
Japan decided to provide an emergency grant aid with the maximum amount of 100 million yen to northwest China's Qinghai Province for medical relief work after Wednesday's earthquake, said a press release from Japan's embassy to China here Friday night.
China's Health Ministry said Thursday it has sent 200,000 cc of blood to quake zone for emergency medical use.
China's Education Ministry Thursday rejected media reports that about 200 children were buried in the ruins of a primary school that collapsed in Wednesday's earthquake in western China.
About 8,370 tents have been shipped to the quake zone in China's northwestern Qinghai Province since it was hit by a major earthquake Wednesday, said an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs Thursday.
No one died from cold in quake-hit Yushu of northwest China's Qinghai Province, said an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs Thursday.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the armed police deployed to quake zone have saved more than 1,000 survivors from rubble in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province, an official with China Earthquake Administration said Thursday.
Wang Na, an employee with popular website Tianya, initiated a donation campaign online immediately after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck China's Qinghai Province early Wednesday.
Several batches of people seriously injured in the 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu of Qinghai Province Wednesday were transferred to the local airport and put onto two planes there Thursday, said authorities.
About 8,370 tents have been shipped to Yushu of northwestern Qinghai Province hit by a serious earthquake, said an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs Thursday.