I forgot to mention something I thought was amazing:
1. Chinese government sent out money (range from 200 -
300 thousand yuan each) immediately to each hospital
of chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan, which is
taking the wounded to cover all of their medical cost.
2. Chinese government will be responsible to provide
free college tuition and living expenses for each
senior high school students who are from the disaster
region and passed their university entrance exams. For
those who don't, and can't go to the universities,
Chinese government will help them placement in
technical schools/institutions to make sure they could
find a work to be independent after graduation.
3. I heard that Chinese Petroleum Company and another
major Chinese company offers all gas used during
disaster relief for free. -- I need to check their
exact English names.
4. The government made a rule to the bank and real
estate companies: No push for mortgage payment by the
real estate companies/banks are allowed. No extra
pressure on the payment on the survivors who purchased
condo before the disaster.
5. Job fair in Shuang Liu city yesterday organized by
local government to help earthquake survivors to make
money and to be self-efficient.
6. Reporters are sent to check out grocery price in
Chengdu. According to their investigation, there's no
price raised and the price of some vegetables are even
lowered. Chengdu citizens are quite satisfied with it.
7. Constipation is a very common problem in the
disaster affected area as their main food source is
cookies, crackers, ramen noodles. Two private
companies have volunteered many times to donate 10
tons of fresh vegetables to police stations after
several hours of driving. To their surprise, the
police station insisted not to accept them, but to
give to the soldiers who have been working in the
frontier. "They need the fresh vegetables much more
than us. We can still carry on with whatever we have
here." The head of the police station stated.
8. Psychological counseling / therapy sessions are
very much encouraged and provided in a timely manner
to the survivors. There're many children and
parents... became depressed after this disaster...
9. So far, 3737 Trains full of supplies have gone to
East Train Station in Chengdu. Volunteers from all
over China came here to help with loading. Each truck
drivers also are volunteers to deliver to shuang Liu
City from the train station.
10. 3.30 million tents are urgently needed for the
fact there're more than 5 million people wait to be
placed. ALSO, cleaning vehicles and water sprinkler
vehicles are most urgently needed for sanitary
purpose.
11. 1026 elements, only 6 of them were damaged in
Chengdu. One particular school camera record shows
Jing Sha elementary school teachers evacuated the
entire school students (almost 1000 people) in less
than a minute to the safe ground.
12. Sichuan provincial hospital: All surgical staffs
work in two shifts keep the department open 24 hours a
day. On the day of earthquake, none of the staffs left
patients alone in operating room. They protected
patients till it's safe to transfer. So far, they had
done total 1488 surgeries since disaster happened.
13. 200 tons of supplies each day arrive at Du Jiang
Yan, a city where 1/3 of housing were destroyed. 38
million medicines have been donated and they have been
categorized and stored properly according to their
properties. All the rest of buildings in Du Jiang Yan
city are being checked by a group of experts which is
consist of more than 100 scientists from all over
China. So far, in provincial area, total more than 800
experts have checked the safety of affected area for
total more than 1100 million square meters.
14. Government officials have been discussing to
provid money to each family who has lost their child
in school collapse in Du Jiang Yan city.
15. There're 2384 students in "An county" high school,
not a single student died during the earthquake. In
each class room, every teacher left the building after
making sure all the students ran to the safe area
first. A teacher was hit by a collapsing wall. The
moment before he was hit, he pushed students away to
the safe place...
16. According to today's Sichuan provincial TV news
this morning: So far, confirmed death 50651, injured
277028, 23803 stayed in the hospital, 22690 discharged
from the hospital. 2873 patients have been transfered
to other cities in China.
Press conference as of May 23rd:
Sichuan University and SouthWest University in Chengdu
would like to admit the children of those who died in
helping with disaster relief effort. How many "heros"
like that have died during this relief effort?
---"Since there're more than 7000 times aftershocks
(specific number is 7182 times). The priority is still
to save lives. Provincial government has to follow
strict identifying procedures in order to verify "hero
status" of those who died during disaster relief."
...
Most of the above info is from direct translation from
TV reports.
Thanks for reading.
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