Special report: Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China    

    BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has sent another 50 medical teams comprising of 1500 medical staff to the earthquake-hit areas in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

    China's Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that the medial staff, who come from PLA hospitals from Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an of northwestern Shaanxi Province, will fly to the disaster-hit areas in succession.

    With their arrival, a total of 68 PLA medical teams have arrived in the quake-hit areas.

    According to the Defense Ministry, cargo planes of the Chinese air force and planes of civil aviation completed three operations of airdrop on Tuesday, sending more than 11,000 soldiers for disaster relief.

65 people evacuated from quake debris by professional rescuers

    BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- By 6 a.m. Wednesday, the professional rescuers had evacuated 65 people from debris after a massive earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday afternoon. Full story

21.6 mln bottles of mineral water shipped to quake-hit areas

    BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A total of 21.6 million bottles of mineral water are being sent to southwest China's quake-hit areas as relief supplies.

    The water, procured by the commerce ministry, are being transported to Sichuan Province by rail, according to a spokeswoman with the Nongfushanquan Mineral Water Co. Ltd. Full story