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A major earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. on May 12, 2008.

Wenchuan County, as the epicenter of the quake, is located 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, which is about 159 kilometers to the northwest of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan. With a population of 111,800 and an area of 4084 sq.km., Wenchuan lies in southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, where there is the Wolong Panda Nature Reserve.

The earthquake has left the province in chaos. More than 3.46 million houses were wracked. Nearly all bridges and roads collapsed. Telecommunication connections and Electricity broke down. People were trapped in debris. As of 2 p.m. on May 18, it is reported that the confirmed national death toll rose to 32,477, and the toll from the disaster would possibly climb to more than 50,000 as many, still buried in rubbles, are feared dead.

Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Sichuan to oversee rescue work hours after the quake. More than 50,000 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops rushed into Wenchuan County and airdropped six tons of food, drinking water, tents and medicine. Rescuers are racing against time to find survivors from the earthquake rubble. At the same time, more and more enterprises and individuals are taking action to help the disaster-hit areas. They have joined a charity campaign, including blood and money donations, no benefit performance and all kinds of praying.

Remaining calm, confident and united, Made-in-China.com called on people all over the world to speed up efforts to fight the disaster and do our utmost to offer support and love for Sichuan quake victims!

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• Tents
• Medical Supplies
• Clothing
• Food
• Clean Water

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    – Rescuers saved and evacuated 724,794 people to safe places, including 6,541 survivors buried under the rubble, as of Tuesday midnight.

    – Hospitals took in a total of 85,722 injured people, 55,514 of whom recovered and left as of Wednesday noon.

    – Domestic and foreign donations had reached 34.79 billion yuan (5.04 billion U.S. dollars), up 2.07 billion yuan overnight. And 9.78 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.

    – A total of 601,900 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions.

    – A total of 3,866,100 quilts and 8,757,300 garments had been sent to these regions.

    – The government has allocated 19.56 billion yuan (2.83 billion U.S. dollars) as of 2 p.m. Wednesday for quake relief efforts. The fund included 15.39 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.17 billion yuan from local budgets.

    – Between Tuesday noon and Wednesday noon, five aftershocks measuring above 4 on the Richter scale had been monitored in Sichuan.

    – International medical teams from Russia, Japan, Italy and Germany have treated 2,410 patients in quake areas since May 20.