China News Service, Xining, May 29 (Reporter Zhang Tianfu) The Qinghai Provincial People's Government Information Office held the ninth and tenth press conferences on the disaster relief of the "5.22" earthquake in Maduo, Qinghai on the morning of the 29th, and the heads of relevant departments introduced the situation.

  At 2:4 on May 22, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred in Maduo County, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. This is the highest magnitude earthquake in China after the Wenchuan earthquake.

  According to Cui Tinghui, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Education, on May 24, the first working day after the earthquake, 11 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Maduo County resumed their teaching activities.

Up to now, 2,693 students in Maduo County are attending classes in 97 tent classrooms. The college entrance examination and high school entrance examination in 2021 will remain unchanged as originally planned and proceed as usual.

The picture shows the site of the tenth press conference for the disaster relief of the "5.22" earthquake in Maduo, Qinghai.

Photo by Zhang Tianfu

  Shu Qilu, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Health Commission, said that the Qinghai health department focused on comprehensive elimination of temporary resettlement sites, schools and other key areas. Up to now, a total of 362,000 square meters have been eliminated.

Timely restoration of infectious disease reports, immunization planning reports, and public health laboratory systems to ensure the effective operation of the disease prevention and control system.

  According to Chen Anmin, vice chairman of the Red Cross Society of Qinghai Province, as of 18:00 on May 28, a total of 1.0939 million yuan of social donations had been received, with a discount of 1.8206 million yuan in donations and materials.

As of 24:00 on May 28th, the Provincial Red Cross had allocated six batches of disaster relief supplies worth 5.01 million yuan in 16 vehicles to the Guoluo disaster area.

  According to Chen Honglin, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Natural Resources, as of 18:00 on May 28, 214 hidden geological hazards in Guoluo Prefecture, the earthquake area, have been prioritized for investigation.

The province has completed 2,724 investigations of hidden dangers of geological disasters, with an investigation rate exceeding 70%.

The investigation of the earthquake area did not find any hidden danger points of geological disasters secondary to the earthquake, and there were no deformation and instability phenomena in the provinces.

The Animaqing Glacier near the epicenter did not experience any new ice avalanches, and 63 major geological disaster control projects in the province, including the Huashixia Town Dangerous Rock Control Project, have not been damaged and are operating well.

  Shi Jian, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that the province has organized 8 engineering survey, design, testing units and construction vocational technical colleges with a total of 64 personnel, formed 14 emergency assessment teams, and sent them to Maduo, Guoluo. County, Dari County, Gande County, and Maqin County comprehensively carried out post-earthquake safety emergency assessment of housing construction and municipal infrastructure.

  According to Ding Zhongbao, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Transportation, as of 12:00 on May 28, 8 666.99 kilometers of damaged national and provincial trunk lines (including 2 expressways of 228.62 kilometers and 6 ordinary national and provincial trunk lines of 438.37 kilometers), bridges 51 highways (28 highways, 23 general national and provincial trunk lines), 68 work zone roads (24 highways, 44 general national and provincial trunk lines), 5 highway tunnels, 48 ​​kilometers of electrical and mechanical facilities, and 20 kilometers of traffic security facilities .

  Peng Shi, deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Water Resources Department, said that at present, the people in the disaster area are basically safe to use water. The 4 reservoirs (hydropower stations) are generally operating normally. There are no dangers due to the earthquake and no secondary disasters in the province's 203 reservoirs.

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