Word: chengdu
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...disaster. The following morning he called out again, this time saying, "I don't think I can hold out much longer." When night fell in Dujiangyan, a loudspeaker truck cruised the streets broadcasting the same message: "Please stay calm. The State Council, the Central Committee, and the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid." Sadly not. But bungled relief operations are, and Beijing is pulling out all the stops to ensure that this time it doesn't repeat past mistakes...
...resembles an army assault. Military vehicles, ambulances and mobile kitchens are everywhere. Soldiers search for survivors in the debris and step in to control emotional crowds of victims' relatives. Through the night, loudspeaker-equipped trucks cruised the streets, appealing for calm: "The State Council, the Central Committee, the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid." But relief operations can still be bungled, and Beijing knows it can't afford that this time...
...Zhang's family is nowhere to be found. Zhao Hongpin, a volunteer from the nearby provincial capital of Chengdu, is desperately trying to locate anyone who knew the dead man. He walks through the crowd gathered on the sidewalk, flashing identification cards from the deceased's wallet to anyone who will look at them. But none will claim him. "If I leave his wallet here, what do you think will happen?" says Zhao. "There are people from the local government around, but they're somewhere else right now. Everyone is overwhelmed...
...scene that repeats itself across this city of 600,000, located 31 miles (50 km) west of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu. Here, where the Sichuan plain meets the foothills of the Himalayas, at least two schools and one hospital suffered severe damage during the quake. Down the block from the elementary school, another group has gathered outside the Dujiangyan City Chinese Medicine Hospital that partially collapsed during the quake, trapping more than 100 patients. One woman, who wouldn't give her name, says her father was being treated in the hospital when the May 12 quake...
...Despite the heavy presence of emergency responders in the city, there's still need for more. When backhoe operators from a Chengdu-based company stopped work clearing a collapsed apartment building as night fell Tuesday, the family of missing residents gathered around and demanded they continue. As they stood in the street, their debate illuminated only by car lights, a loudspeaker truck cruised by with a message: "Please stay calm. The State Council, the Central Committee, the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid...