Gansu urgently issued a rescue demand announcement, and the donation method was announced! Han Hong and Huang Xiaoming donated money and materials to the earthquake-stricken areas.
At 23: 59 on December 18, 2023, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. As of now,The earthquake caused 105 deaths and 397 injuries in Gansu.
In addition, the earthquake affected neighboring Qinghai, and the citizens and counties in Haidong of Qinghai Province felt a strong earthquake. As of now,The earthquake has killed 13 people in Qinghai, injured 182 people and lost 20 people.Some infrastructures such as water, electricity, transportation and communication were damaged.
The two departments urgently earmarked 200 million yuan for disaster relief funds.
On December 19th, the Ministry of Finance and the Emergency Management Department sent an emergency report to Gansu and Qinghai provinces.200 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds were earmarked, including 150 million yuan in Gansu and 50 million yuan in Qinghai.Support local earthquake relief work, ensure the safety of people’s lives and property, and minimize disaster losses and impacts.
Gansu issued a rescue demand announcement
According to Gansu emergency release, Weibo released the Announcement of Rescue Demand on December 19th:
At 23: 59 Beijing time on December 18th, 2023, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, and the disaster was very serious. The state has started the earthquake emergency level II response.There is an urgent need for more than 300 rescue forces such as building collapse search and rescue.Gansu Provincial Earthquake Relief Site Command and Gansu Provincial Emergency Management Department hope that social emergency forces with relevant rescue capabilities will apply for participation in emergency rescue through the social emergency force rescue coordination system. Teams that respond across regions can achieve high-speed free access with the system-generated access code.
The Emergency Department of Gansu Province has established a "social rescue coordination mechanism for the 12.19 Jishishan earthquake in Linxia".It is not recommended that social rescue forces from other provinces and cities go by themselves. If the rescue forces in the province participate in the rescue, they can dock with the contact person.At present, the disaster area is in urgent need of winter materials and living materials, including cotton tents.
Contact information of material donation
Jishishan County Charity Association: 0930-7721662Contact: Han Xuewu (18809308015)
Jishishan County Red Cross Society: 0930-7722412Contact: Ma Xueliang (13830102339)
Linxia Red Cross Society: 0930-6214013Contact: Su Ping (18393404043)
Give a helping hand in many ways
On the morning of December 19th, Han Hong Charity Foundation announced that the board of directors of Han Hong Foundation decided to donate 2 million yuan (1 million yuan in cash and 1 million yuan in materials) to the disaster-stricken areas in Gansu and Qinghai provinces. The first batch of materials will focus on cold-proof materials and self-heating food (halal).
Huang Xiaoming Tomorrow Love Fund said that under the joint donation of Huang Xiaoming, Lin Chi-ling, Crystal and Tong Liya, 2,000 family emergency rescue kits (including insulation blankets, life-saving sentries, compressed raincoats, iodophor and alcohol cotton swabs, band-AIDS, medical bandages, gauze pieces, toothbrushes and toothpaste, sulphur soaps, paper towels, shampoos, disposable disinfection gels, towels, solar multifunctional acousto-optic flashlights, etc.) were urgently mobilized.
According to the China Rural Development Foundation, after the 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, the New Tea Charity Fund joined hands with 10 new tea brands, including Chabaidao, Guming, Honey Snow Ice City, Shuyi Burning Grass, Auntie in Shanghai, Xicha, Yihetang, Modern China Tea Shop, Qifentian and Sweet Lala, to respond to the emergency rescue work and donate 10 million yuan to help the Gansu earthquake. Provide emergency supplies such as life support boxes for disaster areas.
Luckin Coffee also launched an emergency response to disaster relief, donating 5 million yuan through the China Rural Development Foundation for emergency rescue, transitional resettlement of the affected people and post-disaster reconstruction in the affected areas.
The good shop issued a document saying: on behalf of all good powder, it donated 2 million yuan in cash and 4 million yuan in nuts, meat, bread and other nutrients to Gansu.
Du Xiaoman urgently donated 20 million yuan through the China Red Cross Foundation to support the emergency rescue, procurement of relief materials, resettlement of the affected people and post-disaster reconstruction in Gansu earthquake area.
Alibaba delivered more than 50,000 boxes of instant noodles, bread, water, chicken sausages and other emergency relief materials to the disaster area through Tmall Supermarket Xi ‘an Warehouse. Considering that the disaster area is Hui Autonomous Prefecture, most of the relief food is halal food.
In addition to material assistance, Alibaba Public Welfare Foundation, together with China Rural Development Foundation, Red Cross Foundation and One Foundation, has launched an emergency public fundraising channel, and has prepared tens of thousands of disaster relief packages to provide continuous protection for disaster relief.
In addition, Want Want Group Chief Operating Officer @Matt Wangjia Fabo said that Want Want Group announced that it would donate 2 million cash and 2 million equivalent products to China Wang Foundation (to Gansu); Yili and China Red Cross Foundation donated the first batch of 1.5 million yuan in cash for disaster relief; Xiaomi Public Welfare Foundation announced a donation of 5 million yuan to the earthquake-stricken areas for purchasing emergency relief materials and supporting post-disaster reconstruction.
Zhejiang Ram Rescue Team rushed to the local rescue.
According to Zhejiang Online reporter, on the morning of December 19th, at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, members of Zhejiang Ram Rescue Team dressed in yellow and black rescue suits were in a hurry, eager to take a flight to Lanzhou to participate in the rescue. Wang Bin, commander of the Ram Rescue Team, said,The rescue command center of Ram Rescue Team began to respond to the standby duty at 1 am on the 19th, and received the instruction of "Emergency Rescue Operation in Gansu Earthquake-stricken Area" from the National Emergency Management Department at 7: 45 am on the 19th. At present, it has started the two-level response attendance mechanism.
Zhejiang ram rescue team set out from Hangzhou
Nine members of Zhejiang Rams Rescue Team’s Earthquake Rescue Special Service Team took four sets of life search equipment and two rescue dogs on a civil aviation plane leaving Hangzhou for Lanzhou at 10: 30 this morning. In addition, the advance troops of Shaanxi and Sichuan Ram Rescue Teams have already set out with heavy rescue equipment. It is expected that all of them will gather in the earthquake-stricken areas this evening and immediately put into rescue operations.
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