Overseas Chinese share suffering in quake

Hours after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan province, Kan Fengqin, a senior Chinese lawyer working in Mexico and survivor of the Tangshan earthquake, made out donations to the homeland.

"I went through the Tangshan earthquake 32 years ago. Without the assistance from people around the country, it would have been extremely difficult for Tangshan to recover in such a short time," Kan was quoted by People's Daily Online as saying.

The Tangshan earthquake in Hebei province in 1976, with the same magnitude as Monday's quake, claimed 242,000 lives.