The death toll has climbed to 1,944 from a devastating earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai Province, with 216 people still missing, the rescue headquarters said Monday.
The central government has earmarked 4,600 tonnes of grain for the quake-hit Yushu region in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local authorities confirmed Sunday.
Rescuers in the quake-hit Yushu prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai province have saved 17,000 people trapped after Wednesday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake, an official said here Sunday.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Saturday it would send 30 specially modified vans as mobile stores to the quake-hit area in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and armed police have rescued 1,200 people and treated more than 8,700 injured in the quake zone as of 12:00 a.m. Saturday, according to PLA quake-relief headquarters.
Yushu Tibet Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province has recorded 1,206 aftershocks after it was jolted by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake last Wednesday.
Chinese rescuers have saved a 68-year-old man trapped under earthquake rubble for 100 hours.
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