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...northeast city of Tangshan, has jolted the country into a frenzied race against time and death. Chinese state-run media estimated that there are 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including 18,645 people in Mianyang, a city of more than 5 million. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out response. About 100,000 relief workers, including soldiers, police and medical teams, are working in the affected areas, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on state television...
...that episode, which came during the first days in office of Premier Wen and President Hu Jintao, was a turning point. "The government learned the experience and the lesson from SARS," says Shen Kui, a professor at Peking University's law school, implementing new laws and regulations that made the process of crisis management more open and transparent. Even so, Shen says, "in a country where the people are used to hearing lies and cover-ups from its government, there is a certain amount of time required for people to get used to the more open approach. The first reaction...
...Another person died when a water tower collapsed in Mianyang, Sichuan, the news agency said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is expected to tour sites of the destruction, and described the quake as a "disaster", while President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims...
...stand at a new starting point.' HU JINTAO, President of China, after his arrival in Japan on May 6 for the first China-Japan summit in Tokyo in a decade. Relations between the two Asian neighbors have long been strained by historical and security issues...
...envoys from Beijing. Although the talks have been going on since 2002, this was the first time the Chinese public had heard about them, a sign for many analysts that Beijing was softening its previously hardline stance regarding the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. It was also noted that President Hu Jintao had said he expected "positive results" from the talks, another first. Other analyses dwelled on the language used in the official media reports, some of which spoke of the "Dalai Lama group" rather than using phrases such as the "Dalai clique" or "splittist clique" that are usually employed...