Chengdu Shuangliu Int'l airport re-opens--

Chengdu Shuangliu Int'l airport re-opens(1)

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Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, which was closed Monday due to a strong earth quake, has resumed operation Tuesday, according to sources with the southwest China's Sichuan Provincial Government.

The closure has stopped 169 inbound flights and 108 outbound flights.

Facilities of the airport were damaged when the earthquake measuring 7.8 degrees on Richter Scale hits Wenchuan the epicenter, 90 kilometers from Chengdu. The Airport was closed after the earthquake for the rescuers to conduct checkup on the runways.

Rescue teams, cargos heading to earthquake-hit area

Medical staffs and rescue cargos across China were on the way to the quake-hit southwest China early Tuesday morning, according to reports from Xinhua's regional bureaus.

China Eastern Airlines said it has dispatched four aircrafts carrying hundreds of rescue personnel and tons of cargos from east China cities of Shanghai, Jinan, Nanjing, Ningbo and central city of Zhengzhou to Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan, where the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks killed nearly 10,000 people on Monday.

The company vowed to add more planes on the air routes to guarantee the transportation for the disaster relief.

Meanwhile, hundreds of doctors in eastern provinces of Shandong and Anhui and northeast China's Liaoning Province have got prepared to go to Sichuan in time of need.

China's leading telecommunication companies on Tuesday made a public calling via a radio station in Sichuan that phone calls to the province should be short in order to leave the communication channel open for others.

Damages of communication lines in the quake affected areas have made thousands of quake victims out of telecommunication reaches.

Donations and disaster relief goods were raised in many Chinese provinces such as Shandong, Hebei and Henan.

Shandong has prepared drug and medical instruments in addition an emergent donation of three million yuan (about 428,000 U.S. dollars) to the quake-ravaged Sichuan.

Thousands of tents are on the way to the disaster areas from southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and central Henan Province. Tents were the most needed relief cargo for thousands of quake survivors living on streets.

Rains to sweep quake-jolted SW China in 7 days

Three rains are forecast to sweep earthquake-hit southwest China's Sichuan, southern part of Gansu and Shannxi provinces and Chongqing Municipality in the next seven days, the China Meteorological Administration said on Tuesday.

Light and moderate rain would hit much of the regions on Tuesday and Wednesday. The southern part of Sichuan jolted severely in the earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale Monday was likely to see heavy rainfalls and even thunderstorms, possibly increasing difficulties of the disaster relief work, said the national meteorological observatory.

The latest weather report added that another two moderate showers were forecast in the regions on Saturday and next Monday.

Yang Guiming, chief forecaster of the Central Meteorological Station (CMS) warned that lingering rains and thunderstorms may trigger geological disasters like landslides as rocks and the earth were pretty loose after the earthquake.

According to latest data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the 7.8-magnitude quake has killed 9,219 people in eight affected provinces and municipality of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou, Hubei and Chongqing. The quake, which jolted Wenchuan County of Sichuan at 2:28 p.m. Monday, has also leveled some 500,000 rooms in the affected areas.

6 civil aircrafts to ship rescuers, materials to quake-hit areas

At least six aircrafts from Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines were mobilized Tuesday morning to ship relief workers and materials to quake-hit areas.

China orders parachute landing to access quake epicenter

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