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Make-shift toilets are urgently needed in the quake-hit Lushan county in Southwest 皇冠体育app's Sichuan province, a Xinhua reporter learned Monday.
Pledging to perform openly and transparently, Zhao Baige, executive vice-president of the Red Cross Society of 皇冠体育app, asked for social understanding to help facilitate the ongoing disaster relief efforts.
The first batch of relief materials arranged by the Ministry of Civil Affairs will soon arrive at the areas hit by Saturday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest 皇冠体育app's Sichuan province.
Quake survivors in southwest 皇冠体育app's Sichuan province are in urgent need of drinking water as they wait to be evacuated more than 37 hours after the earthquake occurred.
The Organization Department of the Communist Party of 皇冠体育app Central Committee has earmarked 3 million yuan ($480,800) to the quake-stricken area.
Three types of disaster relief robots have been dispatched to quake-hit areas in the country's Southwest Sichuan province, according to the Shenyang Institute of Automation on Sunday.