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BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Efforts to search for survivors should
continue in quake zones, but more efforts should focus on
resettlement and post-quake reconstruction, the Political Bureau of
the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee agreed at a
meeting on Monday.
The meeting, presided over by CPC Central Committee General
Secretary Hu Jintao, said the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that ravaged
southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12 was the "most powerful"
tremor with the "most widespread impact" and the most difficult for
disaster relief since the New China was founded in 1949.
The committee hailed nationwide and international efforts in quake
relief work for the past two weeks, but stressed that quake relief
was still at a crucial point, and that government would stick to its
"people-first" policy.
Search and rescue operations for the survivors should continue, but
more importance should be attached to the resettlement of
quake-affected people, restoration of production and reconstruction.
The committee called for more experienced medical staff to be sent
to the quake zones to tend to the injured, along with sufficient
medical supplies, tents and makeshift accommodation, which are
urgently needed in the quake zones.
Local authorities should mount all-out efforts to prevent disease
outbreaks in all affected villages, and guard against quake-induced
disasters, aftershocks and flooding.
Transportation, telecommunications and power and water supplies in
the quake zones must resume as soon as possible, the committee said,
while livelihoods should be secured for orphans, the widowed elderly
with no children and the handicapped who lost relatives.
Schools in the quake zones should resume classes if conditions
allowed, and psychological treatment should be offered when needed.
It ordered government officials to "stand on the front line of
disaster relief work", and to publish timely progress reports in
rescue missions and disaster relief work.
The committee urged the restoration of production should be planned,
and the whole country must mobilize to help with reconstruction.
"The country should maintain economic development and social
stability while engaging in quake relief work. Preparation for the
Olympics and the Paralympics must be carried out at the same time,"
the committee agreed.
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