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here Chinese Officials Urge Earthquake-Ravaged Nation Not to Give Up By Dingmin Zhang and Aaron Sheldrick May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese disaster officials, struggling with rain and rubble-strewn roads, urged residents not to give up hope for the rescue of thousands of people trapped under debris after an earthquake that killed more than 12,000. About 9,400 people are buried in Sichuan province, the most seriously affected region, Vice Governor Li Chengyun said yesterday, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. ``Survivors can hold on for some time,'' Wang Zhenyao, disaster relief division director at the Civil Affairs Ministry, said at a Beijing press conference yesterday, according to the Associated Press. ``Now it's not time to give up.'' There is little contact with Wenchuan, a city of 118,000 about 14 kilometers from the epicenter. Relief officials said about 6,000 soldiers and 250 medical workers were in the area, with more than 3,700 troops and 1,000 relief workers on the way, Xinhua reported. If the weather improves, the military will airdrop medicine and food, state television said. China has deployed about 50,000 military personnel to the Sichuan region, state media reported. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake, the biggest to hit China in 58 years, struck on May 12, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Sichuan capital, Chengdu, a metropolitan area that's home to 11 million people. As many as 500,000 houses were collapsed across eight provinces, and more than 2,000 students and teachers were buried in schools in Sichuan, state-run China Central Television said. Donations of $222 million poured in from around the world, CCTV said early today. `Going All-Out' ``Rescue teams of soldiers and armed police officers are going all-out to reach the worst-hit regions and many have already started rescuing trapped people,'' Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said yesterday. Sichuan and surrounding areas are among the most populous in the country. The province has 40 percent of China's gas deposits and produced about 22 percent of its natural gas output in 2006, according to China National Petroleum Corp. and BP Plc's annual energy report. It also has the country's largest panda reserve. All 86 of the rare animals at the Wolong center made it through the quake, and the baby pandas were moved to a safer area, CCTV said. It may be a week before a full assessment of casualties, damage and the needs of survivors is made, Nan Buzard, senior director of international disaster response at the American Red Cross, said on Bloomberg Television. ``Communications are very patchy,'' she said yesterday. Bush Calls Hu U.S. President George W. Bush telephoned Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday to express condolences and offer an initial $500,000 in aid, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said his government would donate about $5 million to the recovery efforts, Kyodo News reported. China will ``welcome help and assistance from the international community,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular news briefing in Beijing yesterday. The government increased the allocation for disaster relief by more than four times to 860 million yuan ($123 million), the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on its Web site. More than 1,950 aftershocks have been recorded in the region, with three stronger than magnitude 6, CCTV reported. International relief officials said efforts to respond simultaneously to the China quake and the May 3 Myanmar cyclone, while difficult, aren't unprecedented. In 2004 and 2005, relief agencies raised money for victims of Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake. Multiple Disasters ``Our donors know we often work on more than one disaster,'' said Carolyn O'Brien of AmeriCares in Stamford, Connecticut. ``At one point, we were raising money for both Katrina and Pakistan, and we had donors still giving money for the tsunami.'' The organizers of the Beijing Olympic Games said they have no plans to postpone or alter the route of the Olympic torch relay in Sichuan, scheduled to pass through the province between June 15 and 18. Starting today, the relay will be ``scaled down and less elaborate,'' and will begin with a prayer for the victims, the organizing committee said in a statement on its Web site. The procession doesn't cross the disaster zone, said Li Zhanjun, director of Beijing's Olympic media center. China's Work Safety Bureau ordered all mines, oil and gas wells and chemical plants in the region to be shut. The quake caused two chemical plants in Sichuan's Shenfang city to collapse, leaking large amounts of liquid ammonia, the State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement yesterday. Xinhua reported that the collapse buried several hundred people and caused a leak of 80 tons of liquid ammonia. About 6,000 people were evacuated. The quake was the world's strongest since an 8.5-magnitude temblor struck Indonesia in September, according to USGS. It was the most powerful to hit China since a magnitude-8.6 quake struck Tibet in 1950, killing 1,526 people. A 7.5-magnitude quake killed 250,000 people in northeastern China's Tangshan in 1976. To contact the reporters on this story: Dingmin Zhang in Beijing at dzhang14@bloomberg.net; Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo at asheldrick@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: May 13, 2008 17:19 EDT China's government gives rare transparent look at disaster
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