China
Urgent rescue and evacuation work in China
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Working staff give new bedquilts for passengers who are stranded in an expressway at an assistance spot in Ruyuan County, Shaoguan City, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 29, 2008. Several sectors of Shaoguan City including the government, the Communist Party, the army and the masses continued rescuing stranded people in a highway near the Beijing-Zhuhai expressway. Relief materials including fuel, food and bedquilts were delivered to the stranded continuously. Due to the closure of the expressway linking Beijing with Zhuhai, Guangdong, about 1,300 vehicles and 3,500 people were stranded along a nearby highway in Guangdong's Ruyuan County. (Xinhua Photo) |