【正文】 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 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,” Liu said.“The government has improved disaster preparedness and enhanced citizens39。s Wenchuan county, risk prevention and disaster reduction training became pulsory in local evacuation, fire prevention and earthquake rescue exercises are regularly held in the Lushan quake, 3,800 students at the Mingshan First Middle School escaped safely with no , students at the Lushan Middle School reacted in a more disorganized manner as a result of differing disaster preparedness said disaster preparedness and first aid training should be pulsory not only in Sichuan, but around the country.“If a devastating earthquake happened in Yunnan, Xinjiang or the North China Plain, I doubt residents there could respond and reduce its impact as quickly as Sichuan39。中新網(wǎng)4月21日電綜合消息，5878人受傷，150余萬人受災(zāi)。雅安市位于川藏、川滇公路交會(huì)處，有“雨城”之稱。截至目前，當(dāng)?shù)匾驈?qiáng)震死亡22人、傷1000余人，該縣部分地方出現(xiàn)100%房屋受損，全縣食品僅能維持兩天，急需帳篷、藥品、醫(yī)務(wù)人員、醫(yī)療器械、大型搶險(xiǎn)機(jī)具、食品和飲用水。官方通報(bào)災(zāi)情全省13市(州)150余萬人受災(zāi)四川省人民政府新聞辦公室20日晚10時(shí)22分舉行四川蘆山地震第二場(chǎng)新聞發(fā)布會(huì)。05。在道路交通受災(zāi)方面，雅安市寶興縣道路通訊均中斷，雨城區(qū)通往蘆山的國(guó)道318線大深溪滴水巖段因垮塌巨石造成交通中斷，國(guó)道318線天全思經(jīng)橋塌方搶通后因余震塌方再次造成交通中斷，省道210線銅頭電站至靈關(guān)道路沿線因塌方造成交通中斷，蘆山縣龍門至大川道路沿線因塌方造成交通中斷，甘孜州省道211線瀘定段因?yàn)?zāi)交通中斷。尚無電力行業(yè)人員傷亡報(bào)告。前線指揮部領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的重要通信已經(jīng)得到保障。習(xí)近平20日對(duì)軍隊(duì)和武警部隊(duì)做好抗震救災(zāi)工作作出重要指示，強(qiáng)調(diào)地震已給當(dāng)?shù)厝嗣裆?cái)產(chǎn)安全造成重大損失。在飛機(jī)上，他緊急召開會(huì)議部署救援工作，強(qiáng)調(diào)災(zāi)情、救災(zāi)和傷亡的情況都要及時(shí)公開。中央地方啟動(dòng)應(yīng)急預(yù)案軍隊(duì)馳援災(zāi)區(qū)為應(yīng)對(duì)地震災(zāi)情，中國(guó)地震局、中國(guó)紅十字總會(huì)、國(guó)家安全監(jiān)管總局、公安部、衛(wèi)生計(jì)生以及國(guó)資委等中央多部委第一時(shí)間啟動(dòng)應(yīng)急預(yù)案。海軍也出動(dòng)了一架遙感飛機(jī)趕往災(zāi)區(qū)，第一時(shí)間去了解受災(zāi)的最新的情況。“作為一個(gè)7級(jí)地震，發(fā)生這么多次余震，其實(shí)不奇怪?！笔Y海昆補(bǔ)充說，這個(gè)過程并不是線性降低，中間會(huì)有起伏，所以不排除近期發(fā)生有感地震的可能性，但應(yīng)該不會(huì)發(fā)生比這次主震更大的余震