They're now engaged in assessing the scale of the disaster and distributing water and rice to stricken areas.
Chinese officials this time appeared to be working hard to reach stricken areas.
He said logistical factors, including lack of enough trucks to ship food to the drought-stricken areas, have slowed the response.
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It is also one of Pakistan's most under-developed and poverty stricken areas.
For three days I have been trying to reach the most stricken areas, the places the government does not want anyone to see.
Even in the disaster stricken areas, people should have known, or even if they knew they probably felt that they were protected by the concrete around them.
"The public can of course continue to express scepticism, but we cannot because give up helping compatriots in earthquake-stricken areas of Lushan because of distrust of an organisation, " Beijing Youth Daily commentator Shu Shengxiang adds.
Transport and telephone links, along with power, water and fuel supplies have been severed to many of the stricken areas, which were poor to begin with and have seen their incomes shrivel during the long months of unrest.
Chinese authorities, responding to their first natural disaster since a Communist Party leadership change last year, appear to be moving faster this time to reach stricken areas in the aftermath of Saturday's tremor, which was measured by China's earthquake administration at magnitude 7.0 and by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6.
Trafficking is common in rural areas of West Bengal and local official Rakhibur Rehman says "that in his travels across this poverty stricken part of India, he has come across many cases where girls as young as 12 are sold by their parents".
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