The two departments allocated 50 million yuan to support Tibet in earthquake emergency rescue and disaster relief work

China News Service, Beijing, October 23 (Reporters Guo Chaokai and Chen Su) Reporters learned from China's Ministry of Emergency Management on the 23rd that after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Baqing County, Tibet, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently allocated 50 million yuan (RMB, the same below) of central natural disaster relief funds to support Tibet's earthquake emergency rescue and relief work; the National Disaster Reduction and Relief Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management raised the national natural disaster relief emergency response level to Level 3.

At 22:33 on October 22, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Baqing County, Nagchu City, Tibet. On the 23rd, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently allocated 50 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds to support Tibet in carrying out earthquake emergency rescue and relief work for the affected people. It focused on emergency response work such as personnel search and rescue, relocation and resettlement of the affected people, elimination of dangers, and repair of damaged houses to minimize disaster losses and casualties.

According to the "National Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan", on October 23, the National Disaster Reduction and Relief Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management raised the national natural disaster relief emergency response level to level three in response to the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Baqing, Tibet, and dispatched an additional joint working group to the disaster area to guide the disaster relief work.

On the basis of the 5,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials allocated in the early stage, the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with the National Grain and Material Reserves Bureau, allocated an additional 5,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials such as cotton tents, cotton coats, and folding beds to Tibet, and launched an emergency supplies government-social coordination guarantee mechanism to coordinate The Red Cross Society of China, China Charity Federation and relevant foundations, enterprises and social platforms promptly allocated 43,000 items of mobile toilets, heating stoves, food, fuel and other materials, and organized all parties to set up groups in centralized resettlement sites to provide hot food to ensure that the affected people were properly resettled.