Extensive Relief Efforts are Underway to Provide Relocated Residents

Extensive relief efforts are underway to provide relocated residents with essential supplies and shelter and protect them from the harsh winter temperatures following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Xigaze City in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region on Tuesday.

More than 600 households in Lazi Village, one of the areas severely affected by the earthquake, have moved into temporary tents, and relief supplies are being rushed in to meet their needs.

At the entrance of the central primary school in Lazi Town, people queued to collect new stoves, which are larger and can provide better heating than the Tibetan-style stoves initially supplied by the local government. At around 23:00 local Time on Friday and midnight on Saturday, two special trains carrying relief supplies departed from Chengdu and Deyang in southwest China’s Chengdu Province.