BEIJING: Five days after the devastating earthquake in northwestern China, rescuers today pulled out a four-year-old girl and an elderly Tibetan woman alive under the rubble of a collapsed building, even as the death toll rose to 1,944.
68-year-old Wujin Cuomao and the young Cairen Baji had been trapped for more than 123 hours when rescuers finally managed to pull them out alive in Jiegu, which was the worst hit town in the Qinghai province.
Relatives kept the duo alive by sending them food and water through gaps in rubble with the help of bamboo poles, the official China Central Television reported. It aired the footage of the duo being taken out of the rubble.
Officials put the death toll from the 7.1 magnitude quake at 1,944 and the injured at 12,135. Official Xinhua news agency said out of the injured, 1,434 are in serious condition.
Convoys of military trucks, civilian aid vehicles and ambulances headed to the worst quake-hits areas on the Tibetan plateau.
The rush for tents and relief goods increased with hundreds of people lining up at the relief centres as the extreme cold weather persisted.
Till yesterday 25,000 tents, 52,000 quilts, 16,000 coats and 850 tonnes of instant noodles and drinking water have been dispatched to the quake hit areas.
China has also welcomed aid from countries. Meanwhile, Hong Kong-based Hollywood star Jackie Chan announced a cash donation of three million yuan ($439,477 ) to quake victims.
Chan and Taiwanese actress Vivian Hsu flew to the quake hit areas yesterday and met several people in relief camps.
Chan also donated 1,500 boxes of biscuits, 700 cotton coats and 100 boxes of bottled water. Hsu donated 1,000 cotton-padded quilts.
A geological reconnaissance to turn the quake-hit area into a "plateau ecological tourist centre" by relocating the towns was carried out today.
The framework plan is getting ready to turn the quake-devastated township into "a plateau ecological tourist city," the provincial government of Qinghai announced today.
A team of 16 experts from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the provincial housing bureau were conducting a field study of the quake zone, Xinhua reported.
Quake Relief in Action: Movie star Jackie Chan donates 3 mln yuan to quake victims
Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan Sunday announced a cash donation of 3 million yuan (439,477 U.S. dollars) to quake victims in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Chan and Taiwanese actress Vivian Hsu flew from Xining, capital of Qinghai, to the quake-hit Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu on Sunday.
Chan also donated 1,500 boxes of biscuits, 700 cotton coats and 100 boxes of bottled water. Hsu donated 1,000 cotton-padded quilts.
The 7.1-magnitude quake that struck Yushu Wednesday morning has left at least 1,706 dead, 256 missing and 12,128 injured, as of 10 a.m. Sunday.
Qinghai News Network News at noon today (April 18), Jackie Chan Foundation, Provincial Political Consultative Conference accepted the goods to the disaster areas in Yushu.
Yushu province earthquake affecting the whole vast land. April 18 at noon, a plane carrying the relief goods landed at Xining airport slowly, by the Jackie Chan donated 3 million yuan materials, Mr. Yu Rongguang donated 200 sets of underwear, Miss Xu Ruoxuan donation of 1,000 blankets, 1 ton of biscuits, 1.5 tons of water and 700 cotton-padded clothes arrived in Xining.
CPPCC Provincial Committee Chairman Mary White, Vice-Chairman Chen owned the whole, U.S. Trade Friction and the staff at the airport
Jackie Chan and Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation and on behalf of the staff and his party provincial government to accept donations.
Critical moment even more pure heart. Yushu in that earthquake, Mr. Chan actively organize materials, hope can do something for the victims.
Audio record: (seismic start I had wanted to come, but also deployed aircraft can not, here I am very concerned about every day, when the first opportunity I had to fend for themselves a plane package. Every day know here need many, many materials, but I believe our country is very able to rescue all of the disaster, we come really to love to come here, come this time we brought 15 tons of cargo, but the aircraft can not be loaded, can only be installed three tons, will be today after all of the materials transported over land after another.) recorded only
It is understood that after the earthquake Yushu, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, China Social Entrepreneur Foundation and the community who love the power assistance in areas such as disaster relief in our province, ending at 6:00 p.m. on the on the 17th, has been raised for the Yushu earthquake relief funds and materials A total of 21.452 million yuan, of which 16.08 million yuan of funds, all kinds of needed materials worth 5.372 million yuan. (Author: Xiao-Hong Han)
青海新闻网讯 今天中午(4月18日)，省政协接受了成龙基金会向玉树灾区的物资。
我省玉树地震，牵动着整个神州大地。4月18号中午，一架运载着救灾物资的飞机缓缓降落在西宁机场，由成龙先生捐赠的300万元物资，于荣光先生捐赠的200套内衣，徐若瑄小姐捐赠的1000条棉被、1吨饼干、1.5吨水和700件棉衣抵达西宁。
省政协主席白玛，副主席陈资全、韩玉贵及有关人员在机场迎接
成龙先生及成龙慈善基金会工作人员一行并代表省委、省政府接受的捐赠物资。
危难关头更见赤子心。在得知玉树发生地震后，成龙先生就积极组织物资，希望能为灾民尽一份力。
出录音：(地震一开始我本来想就过来的，但是，飞机也调派不了，我每天都很关注这边，当一有机会我只能自己包一架飞机过。每天都知道这边需要很多很多物资，但我自己相信我们国家很有能力去救助所有的灾难，我们过来真的是把爱心带过来，这次过来我们带来15吨的货物，但是飞机装不了，只能装三吨，今天过后所有的物资会陆陆续续运过来。)录音止
据了解，玉树地震后，中国扶贫基金会、友成企业家扶贫基金会及社会爱心人士等各方面力量援助我省抗震救灾，截止到17号18点，已经为玉树地震灾区募集救灾资金和物资共2145.2万元，其中资金1608万元，各类急需物资价值537.2万元。
"April 14 injured in the earthquake children Yushu, can we determine where the funding of projects in Qinghai serious illness of children, for medical expenses relief." Beijing Jackie Chan ( online watching video works ) Charitable Foundation, the Secretary-General told reporters: From May 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011, all 16 years of age hospitalized (including 16-year-old) was seriously ill from poor families in Qinghai Province The children, in the provision of all relevant supporting information, will be for hospital and surgical assistance, project funds totaling 20 million yuan a whole.
“4月14日玉树地震中受伤的少年儿童，可以通过我们确定的资助青海省大病儿童救治的项目，申请医疗费用救助”。北京成龙(在线看影视作品)慈善基金会秘书长告诉记者：从2010年5月1日至2011年5月31日，凡住院的16岁以下（含16岁）青海省家境贫困的罹患重病的少年儿童，在提供全部相关证明资料后，将得到住院和手术费用援助，项目资金共计人民币2000万元整。
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