Special
report: Reconstruction After
Earthquake
BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of China's major earthquake increased by 2 overnight to 69,136 as of Sunday noon, the State Council Information Office said.
A total of 374,061 people were injured and 17,686 others remained missing after the 8.0-magnitude quake that jolted southwestern Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.
Hospitals had treated 95,061 injured people as of Sunday noon, of whom 76,418 had been discharged and 16,049 were still being treated.
By Saturday, nearly 1.38 million quake survivors had been found and evacuated.
Relief supplies continued to pour into the quake zone. As of Sunday noon, 906,600 tents, 4.76 million quilts, 13.58 million garments, 817,800 tonnes of fuel oil and 1.75 million tonnes of coal had been sent.
The office said that as of Saturday, relief workers had built 48,700 temporary houses and another 22,100 were being installed, while the material for 77,000 makeshift houses had arrived in the affected areas.
As of Sunday noon, domestic and foreign donations had reached 44.04 billion yuan (about 6.29 billion U.S. dollars).
So far, 13.6 billion yuan, in cash and materials, had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas, the office said.
The government disaster relief fund had reached 23.44 billion yuan (3.35 billion dollars), including 18.91 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.53 billion yuan from the local budget.
As of 4 p.m. on Saturday, 4,003 enterprises had resumed production in the quake regions, according to the office.
The quake has so far caused 206.53 billion yuan of economic losses to the industrial and mining enterprises, with 1,482 firms remaining closed.
In the 24 hours ending Sunday noon, 177 aftershocks were monitored in southwest China's quake zone, according to the China Earthquake Administration.
Four of the tremors measured between 4.0-4.9 and all the others measured at or below 3.9 magnitude, the administration said.
Since the primary quake, 11,005 aftershocks have been detected.
Premier Wen continues quake lake tour,
says quickness is vital
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) goes to
board the helicopter after his inspection at the Tangjiashan quake lake in
Mianyang of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 6, 2008. (Xinhua/Liu
Weibing)
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MIANYANG, Sichuan, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao continued his tour of the Tangjiashan quake lake on Friday,
encouraging soldiers, local residents and engineers for further drainage
preparations.
Following yesterday's inspection, he stressed three
principals in easing the quake lake pressure: safety, science and speed. Full story
Drainage of China's main quake lake
goes smoothly, high alert remains
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Engineering soldiers fire a missile to
blast boulders in a man-made sluice channel in Tangjiashan, quake-hit
southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 8, 2008. A total of 4 missiles
were fired on Sunday to clear boulders in the sluice channel, which
speeded up the drainage of the dangerous Tangjiashan quake lake that began
on Saturday morning.(Xinhua Photo)
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MIANYANG, Sichuan Province, June 8 (Xinhua) --
Drainage of the dangerous Tangjiashan "quake lake" in Sichuan Province has gone
smoothly since Saturday. However, local government is still on high alert.
Engineering soldiers have fired missiles to blast
boulders in a man-made sluice channel to accelerate water drainage. Full story
