All shaken up: A woman looking out from a building damaged by the quake in Yangbi County of Dali prefecture, in southwest Yunnan province. AFP
BEIJING: Chinese State Councillor Wang Yong demanded all-out efforts to organise relief work and rescue the injured after earthquakes hit the provinces of Yunnan and Qinghai.
People’s lives should be taken as the top priority, said Wang, who also leads the State Council’s earthquake relief headquarters.
Work groups and disaster relief forces have been dispatched soon after the quakes, Wang said at a meeting to arrange disaster relief work, stressing real-time monitoring to verify the disaster situation.
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