It was 11 pm on Saturday and Nyima Rigzin, principal of the Yushu School for Orphans, was still busy answering his three phones.
Working in this remote Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Shi Huajie's cell phone number ends in 999, an emergency rescue code.
Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, talks with local residents who have sufferd the earthquakes in quake-hit Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, on April 26, 2010.
Twenty-one Yushu orphans will begin their new school life today in the provincial capital Xining after the 7.1-magnitude quake destroyed their home 12 days ago.
Reconstruction of the quake zone in northwest China's Qinghai Province faces major challenges, Zhang Guangrong, deputy governor of Qinghai Province, said Monday.
A total of 59,093 tents and 207,959 quilts had been distributed to survivors in the quake zone of northwest China's Qinghai Province by Sunday, the vice governor of Qinghai said Monday.
Beijing - Officials and staff from China's central government agencies have donated more than 820 million yuan ($120 million) in cash to quake-hit Qinghai province as of Sunday, according to the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
Walking through the aisles of the large medical station in Yushu county, 14-year-old Urgyen stopped beside the bed of one male patient and asked: "What seems to be the trouble?"
Qinghai earthquake victims help each other survive. Zhang Jin reports from Yushu.
100 wells will be dug to provide clean water for residents in Yushu, where 7.1-magnitude earthquake left 2,203 dead as of Sunday, said Liu Qingshan, director of the Qinghai land and resources department.
Officials and staff from China's central government agencies have donated more than 820 million yuan (120 million US dollars) in cash to quake-hit Qinghai Province as of Sunday, according to the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
Hundreds of rescuers headed for quake-hit Yushu are stranded at Xining airport of northwest China's Qinghai Province due to heavy snow in Yushu and a sandstorm in Xining, the provincial capital.