Prioritization of action to be taken after Sichuan earthquake

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2. Prioritization of action to be taken aftermath

After the , many building, road and other facilities were damaged. All of the highways into , and others throughout , were damaged, resulting in delayed arrival of the rescue troops. In , 80% of the buildings collapsed according to . In the , south-east of the epicenter, a whole school collapsed with 900 students buried and 50 dead. Half of the wireless communications were lost in the Sichuan province.

The People's Republic of China government not only rescues the victims from the disaster, but also to take another action like the Ministry of Health to be organizing 2000 persons medical epidemic control team. The Ministry of Transport was responsible to repair the damaged road and control the traffic at the epicenter. The Ministry of Railways was maintaining the railways system to ensure the transposition. The Ministry of Water Resources was maintaining the water and wastewater system and to assess the conditions of reservoirs. The Ministry of Environmental Protection was starting the nucleus and irradiation pollution emergency plan.

There are many actions necessary to take but we can not to do so many actions at the same time. Therefore, the actions should be prioritized according to the important. We should be divided 3 phases to take the actions. The first is Search and Rescue Phase. The second is Prevention Other Disaster and Victims Temporary Arrangement Phase. And the last is Social Reconstruction Phase.

2.1 Search and Rescue Phase

In the earthquake disaster, 69,197 are confirmed dead, and 374,176 injured, with 18,340 listed as missing from Official figures. Therefore, saving lives in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake is the top priority for the time being and rescue operations will continue as long as hope exists that people can be saved. The search and rescue victims are the most important action. Another actions supporting and assisting the rescue was also important.

2.1.1 Emergency Rescue

Rescue is the most important action. President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, he flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Wen held an emergency meeting said that “We must try our best to open up roads to the epicenter and rescue people trapped in the disaster-hit areas.”

Therefore, China's Chengdu Military Area Command has dispatched 5,000 troops and armed police to help with disaster relief work in earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County, in the southwestern Sichuan Province on 12 May. Armed police forces stationed in Sichuan province have dispatched 2,900 personnel, while regular army personnel made up the rest of the detachment.14,000 soldiers had so far been transported by 25 military trains to the quake-stricken Sichuan Province in next day.

China will also send 20 military planes to transport armed forces and armed police to the quake-hit areas, according to the military emergency response office on 13 May.

The soldiers reached Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan on foot on 13 May afternoon because the town was not accessible by vehicles. On several days after earthquake, Xinhua reported 135,000 Chinese troops and medics are involved in the rescue effort across 58 counties and cities. Therefore, many people had been rescued.

2.1.2 Relief Materials

After the earthquake, water supply facilities were severely damaged in about 20 cities and counties in Sichuan. The predominant reason for the long duration water outages was due to broken buried pipelines. The loss of power to water treatment plants caused a total loss of water production. Beside, millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million in Sichuan province. The victims were lacking for water, food and many others materials like blanket and etc. Therefore, the  arranged on 13 May the delivery of its first batch of disaster relief supplies to Sichuan Province. A total of 10,000 flashlights, 40,000 batteries and 200,000 candles were sent from , and the delivery of other materials followed. Beside, a total of 21.6 million bottles of mineral water are being sent to southwest China's qe-hit areas as relief supplies. The water is being transported to Sichuan Province by rail and airdropped bottled water is far from sufficient. Moreover, over 300 of the Tibetan villagers were stranded in their demolished village for five days without food and water before the rescue group finally arrived to help the injured and stranded villagers down the mountain. Therefore, 20 helicopters were deployed for the delivery of food, water, and emergency aid, and also the evacuation of the injured and reconnaissance of quake-stricken areas.

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2.1.3 Electric Power

The quake had cut the electrical load in Sichuan by 4 million kilowatts, paralyzing one 500-kv power station and five 220-kv power stations. Plants in western Sichuan including Jiangyou, Jintang, Baozhusi, Maoxian County and Dazhou Dongyuan were cut off from the grid. The State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) has activated its highest possible emergency response and promised all-out efforts to restore power disrupted by a earthquake. The SERC has ordered generation and transmission companies to recover the power as soon as possible and to ensure power supplies to some important sectors, such as transportation, communication and ...

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