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Premier: Rescue every person

By Chen Xin  (China Daily)

08:17, April 22, 2013

Premier Li Keqiang consoles a young earthquake victim in a hospital in Chengdu on Sunday. [Photo/Xinhua]

Premier Li Keqiang gives light of hope and confidence to quake victims as he leads rescue work, comforts survivors and asks for every home to be checked.

Premier Li Keqiang climbed onto a heap of debris to view the disaster area after arriving in Lushan county, Sichuan province, where he expressed condolences to victims and survivors of Saturday's devastating magnitude-7 earthquake.

"We should put saving people first because people's lives are more precious than anything else. We should use scientific means, including using life detectors, to rescue every person who might survive," Li told reporters at the epicenter in Lushan on Sunday morning.

Li flew to Lushan shortly after the earthquake struck and visited temporary settlements, hospitals and tents.

He was even leading a meeting in a tent when a magnitude-4 aftershock occurred.


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