Qinghai terrain poses serious challenge to rescue operations after deadly earthquake, report Fu Jing and Yan Jie in Yushu, and Hu Yinan and Cao Li in Beijing.
The first person I met after arriving in the earthquake zone on Saturday was Tsomo, a Tibetan woman, who waved at me as she stood atop piles of rubble that were once a small residential community in the ruined Gyegu township.
The underground water in China's quake-hit township of Jiegu in the northwestern province of Qinghai has not been contaminated in the wake of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Wednesday, Chinese environmental experts conducting water tests here on Sunday said.
The details of how donations to quake victims in Qinghai Province are used will be made public on a regular basis, to boost efficiency and transparency, China's disaster relief authorities said Sunday.
A 100,000-yuan donation from the 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, was sent to China's quake zone in Yushu, northwestern province of Qinghai, on Sunday, along with his encouraging words.
The government had taken into consideration of the diet habits and needs in practicing religious service among people from minority ethnic groups in relief work in the quake zone, said an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs Sunday.
Chinese rescuers have saved a 68-year-old man who was trapped under earthquake rubble for 100 hours.
A local Red Cross official asked medical workers and rescuers not to swarm to quake-hit Yushu as enough people have been working there.
A medical team of Taiwan Red Cross are heading for quake-hit Qinghai Province on Sunday to assist relief work and is expected to arrive at Qinghai's capital city Xining in the evening.
People from all parts of China have been making donations to help the people in Yushu after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the prefecture in northwest Qinghai Province early Wednesday morning.
An increasing number of Tibetan students who study in China's larger cities volunteered to interpret for their folks hospitalized after a devastating earthquake that killed at least 1,484.
President Hu Jintao Sunday morning flied to quake-hit Yushu in Qinghai Province to guide relief work and visit victims. Toll: 1,706
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