While continuing to treat those injured in the quake, China's health authorities plan to boost basic medical services in quake-hit northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Epidemic prevention work is going well in the quake-hit Yushu, northwest China's Qinghai Province, as medical staff and disease control experts intensified their efforts to remove epidemic risks.
Five hours of snowfall left the earthquake-ravaged Gyegu town of Yushu county under a blanket of white on Thursday morning, hampering relief work.
A draft reconstruction plan for quake-hit Yushu county in Northwest China's Qinghai province has been drawn up and will be submitted to the central government for approval soon.
The protection of the ecological environment will be given priority in the reconstruction of the earthquake-ravaged Yushu, which is the fountainhead for China's three major rivers - the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Lancang River, officials said.
Even as millions of Chinese are giving money to the quake victims in Yushu, a few malicious hucksters are trying to take advantage of donors' kind hearts.
The death toll has climbed to 2,187 from a devastating earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai Province, with 80 people still missing, the rescue headquarters said Thursday.
A Chinese official Thursday said there had been no looting of quake relief materials in northwestern province of Qinghai and the aid had been distributed to victims in a fair and transparent way.
Flags were lowered to half-mast and memorial ceremonies were conducted in Chinese embassies and consulates worldwide Wednesday, a national day of mourning in China for the victims of the Qinghai province earthquake.
A total of 1,380 aftershocks have been detected in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the region on April 14, said seismological authorities.
Rescuers had pulled 1,455 survivors out of collapsed buildings in northwest China's earthquake-struck Qinghai Province by Wednesday, a week after the devastating 7.1-magnitude quake, rescue headquarters said Thursday.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) chief Wednesday paid tribute to the Chinese people and government's rescue efforts after a strong quake rocked China's Qinghai province.
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