[robertvance]

It is amazing how far reaching this tragedy really is. It seems that almost everyone I know here in China have friends or family in the Sichuan region.

[kittycatonline.com]

Yeah, all the petty whining about the admittedly bad situation in Tibet seems pretty insignificant now. Comparing the population size of the US and China, they’re way past our 9/11 loss of life, and it looks like they’ve just scratched the surface. It’s pretty tragic no matter how you look at it.

[woollyone]

welcome to FR “robert”

[hebe]

i am from sichuan.but ,now i am work in shanghai.
when i hear it,i am very cry.it’s very sadly in sichuan.
but,we are saw love and friendship,country give them help and love,i see all army is brave,so i think ,god is bless our.

[colinhester]

And then there's the dam that's in serious structural distress. This should be cause for grave concern. Prayers for all.....C

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315944,00.html

[Vigilanteman]

Sichuan is also home to the best Chinese food in China. Americans may know it as Szechuan.

My daughter is working in Anhui province and said they didn't even feel the quake. But all China is working to respond.

I remember how good it felt to see the roads into Kobe clogged with trucks carrying relief supplies after our big quake there in 1995.

[robertvance]

There is no question that the unrest in Tibet has been put on the ‘backburner’ temporarily. Up until Monday afternoon, Tibet and the Olympics was all anyone wanted to talk about in this area. I haven’t heard anyone mention Tibet since Monday and the only discussion about the Olympics centers around whether or not the recently constructed buildings in Beijing were damaged by the earthquake.

[Admin Moderator]

Welcome to Free Republic. Thank you for posting the interesting article on the recovery efforts and reactions of students in China.

[wu guoqiang china]

I am a citizen of China, Sichuan, China's earthquake as at May 14 at 14,000 people have died, but there are still many people did not have been search and rescue, because the mountain landslide, heavy rain coupled with the local road was blocked, It is very difficult to enter the disaster areas, most of the roads into the disaster areas have been opened up, the Chinese central authorities have already sent 100,000 soldiers to the disaster area running the 10,000 soldiers parachuting, Chinese folk contributions have nearly 1.6 billion yuan, I am here Thank all the disaster areas to pray for the Chinese friends in the United States, I understand the English language is not a lot, so I used the online translation of the message you, if you want to know more about China's domestic situation can damage to my e-mail message sent wuguoqiangauto @ 126.com, I will keep China's domestic situation to you, I hope you will help China's disaster-stricken citizens, to help those children! Thank you very much

[CDB]

Check out this WAPO blog:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/pomfretschina/2008/05/chinas_earthquake_chief.html

The author—John Pomfret—was the WAPO’s Beijing Bureau Chief recently.

[keepitreal]

robervance,

We have a little girl waiting for us to come to adopt in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. I have heard of some damage in that area. Is there any truth to that?

Thank you!

Mary

[Lexinom]

This is a tragedy felt on the other side of the earth.

Prayers are with you and the thousands of Chinese impacted.

Please keep us apprised of the situation on the ground, and of anything we can do to help.