【正文】 Sichuan province, has been gathering donations and ferrying funds to the disaster zone quickly, a process he says his small group can handle more efficiently than the bureaucratic RCSC.“From the time we receive the donations to the time we pass the funds over to the victims, it takes us only five hours,” says Yuan, who declined to give his first name because of the sensitive nature of the issue.“Can the Red Cross do that? Of course they can?t.”Indeed, according to the RCSC?s own figures, as of April 24, four days after the earthquake, it had distributed only 25% of the donations it public backlash has been disastrous for the RCSC, but other charity organizations too are having to work hard to build credibility with a public that is eager to help but skeptical about how funds are being money on the streets of Chengdu, Yuan says he faces intensescrutiny from those he approaches for donations.“Some of them even accused us of being cheats, but most of them, after we explained what we did and who we are, chose to trust us,” he Sunday the RCSC?s executive vice president, Zhao Baige, addressed the crisis of confidence in the organization.“If in two to three years we can?t turn the image of the ?black cross? into a ?Red Cross,? I will resign,” she a sign that public sentiment may be improving, the organization also said it now accounted for almost half of all donations to the quakerelief the RCSC is painfully discovering, trust is one of the most valuable endowments of article fails to mention that, while donations may have got off to a slow start, RCSC had, as of May 1 collected more than 666 million CNY(108 million USD)in cash and inkind is pletely inaccurate to say that RCSC has e under ever tighter government control in recent it is true that many but not all of its staff are civil servants, since themid1990’s, the RCSC’s relationship with the government has actually evolved from one in which it formed part ofthe Health Ministry structure, to one in which it enjoys a large and growing measure of operational from China dailyQuake prompts disaster preparedness discussionBEIJINGExperts are urging the government to create more effective measures to promote public preparedness in the event of a natural disaster in the aftermath of the Lushan earthquake.“Years of research show that selfrescues have a significant role in saving lives when natural disasters percent of survivors are saved by themselves or fellow victims,” said Wang Shaoyu, a public security planning and risk management expert at the Harbin Institute of earthquake hit Lushan county in southwest China39。s Sichuan province on April 20, leaving at least 196 people dead and tens of thousands than 30,000 rescue and relief workers were dispatched to quakehit areas, rescuing 475 Baoxing county39。s Lingguan township, which was cut off from rescuers for 33 hours due to obstructed roads, local residents used shovels and pickaxes to rescue two survivors within three rescuers did manage to arrive at the township, rescue efforts had already been Xuancai, a deputy squadron leader from the fire department of the city of Ya39。an, said each of the city39。s six counties and two districs have professional rescue squads to respond to disasters immediately.“Most residents of Taiping township know that they should not return to their damaged homes to collect their belongings, but should stay out in the open,” L