中国甘肃省ZHOUQU发生山体大滑坡

看新闻报道说新华日报说星期天甘肃发生的灾难中有337人死亡，上千人仍然失踪。希望这报道属实，没有比这更多的人受难吧！

西方评论文章说：中国大陆中央集权政府，这些年来面对洪水、地震、山体滑坡等自然灾害，调动了他们所有的力量进行救援。他们正在尽力换取百姓对他们想保住的集权制和军队的支持(懂英文的请读原文吧！)。


337 Dead, 1,000 Missing in China Mudslides

A view of a massive mudslide running through the county-seat town in Zhouqu county in northwest China's Gansu province on Monday.

msnbc.com news services

updated 17 minutes ago



ZHOUQU, China — The death toll from a massive landslide triggered by floods in China's northwest has risen to 337, the country's state media said on Monday.



The Communist Party chief of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province also told the state-run Xinhua News Agency that more than 1,100 people were still missing.



The disaster struck Sunday as a debris-blocked swollen river burst, swamping entire mountain villages in the county seat of Zhouqu and ripping homes from their foundations.



It is the deadliest incident in China's worst flooding in a decade.



Meantime, rescuers armed with little more than shovels searched for hundreds of people after a torrent of mud engulfed the town, tearing down homes and filling the streets with sludge.



Upstream from the disaster, demolition experts and geologists were working frantically to drain a lake that had built up behind a barrier of landslide blockage.



With more rains forecast for this week, there would be fresh tragedy if the unsecured dam bursts, creating a new mud flow.



Story continues below Troops, police and firefighters deployed

Premier Wen Jiabao visited the disaster-hit town on Sunday, to survey the wreckage, promise government help, console survivors, and urge rescuers and engineers to work as hard as possible to save lives and prevent fresh tragedy.



China has deployed all the resources of a powerful central government to battle a string of natural disasters in recent years — flooding, quakes and landslides — winning popular support for both the military and the leadership.



Six thousand troops, police and firefighters worked through the night to dig out survivors, though the slurry of mud that devastated the worst-hit areas dimmed hopes of finding many alive under the wreckage, and complicated rescue efforts.



Over a meter deep in many areas, the mire has made it almost impossible for rescue teams to bring in vital heavy equipment.