Vice Premier urges safe winter for quake-hit residents

Source: Xinhua | 10-29-2008 08:55

CHENGDU, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang urged authorities of southwestern Sichuan Province to ensure the May 12 quake affected residents live through the coming winter safely and speed up reconstruction work.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R front), member of the  Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC)  Central Committee Political Bureau, visits a local family  at their newly-built house in Yingxiu Town, the May 12  quake epicenter in southwest China's Sichuan Province,  Oct. 26, 2008. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang visited  the May 12 quake-hit area in Sichuan recently to see  the progress of the post-quake reconstruction and console  the survivors.(Xinhua Photo)

Li visited farmers' houses, temporary hospitals, enterprises and construction sites in the province from Saturday to Monday.

The construction of permanent houses meeting quality and quake-resistant standards should be accelerated to make more residents live in new homes as early as possible, said the vice premier when visiting a farmer's newly completed house in Wenchuan, the epicenter of the 8.0 magnitude quake which left more than 80,000 people dead or missing.