China's Ministry of Education said Thursday every primary and middle school student in mudslide-hit Zhouqu County will have new textbooks when the new school semester starts.
China's Ministry of Education said Thursday every primary and middle school student in mudslide-hit Zhouqu County will have new textbooks when the new school semester starts.
China's experience in disaster relief during two major earthquakes in 2008 and 2010 has helped authorities to move faster and more effectively in aiding the northwestern county of Zhouqu, leveled by mudslides on Sunday, experts said here Thursday.
Social order in mudslide-flattened Zhouqu County in Northwest China's Gansu province is stable as local police, fire fighters and armed forces make an all out effort to ensure public safety.
The stench of death loomed over this northwestern county on Wednesday, three days after the deadliest mudslide in decades buried almost 2,000 people in their homes.
Food, clothing and shelter supplies for the mudslide-affected people in Zhouqu County in northwest China's Gansu Province are to be properly handled, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Tuesday.
Engineers and workers battled on Tuesday to drain an unstable lake created by the country's deadliest landslide in six decades
Rescuers saved a 52-year-old man from the ruins of an apartment building on Tuesday morning, about 60 hours after the country's deadliest landslide killed at least 702 people and leveled this county in Gansu province.
Rescuers searching for survivors in this mudslide-flattened Northwest China county were spurred on Monday when a 71-year-old woman was pulled alive from the debris and rubble.
More than 40 hours after his mother's home was obliterated by a massive mudslide, Xu Tenphel refused to leave the rubble.
Rescuers are racing against time in the search for survivors in a mudslide-flattened Northwest China county and to demolish a dam of debris to prevent further devastation from flood waters.
Firefighters sent by the Ministry of Public Security have saved 58 people from rain-triggered landslides in Zhouqu County of northwest China's Gansu Province as of 8:30 pm Sunday, according to the ministry.