Profile of Li Ming - DalianNews

Just two weeks after a devastating hN0ux)MG6C1)&yWIPHAmCDGV4zE8pnLxcLdFm@htremor in which morefoPzhLjsG)XIK5nGLl1 than 68,000 lives wyaj!iBHRhMV05(i61 pAyFQ*ere perished, a pairzB of powerful aftershocks on Tuesday coll+Wjsi5( YL!aWDM-AF6+M0r)3apsed hundreds of thy^AYxy$(GkL-h)E)J3e69U9sW#Wsu9CnT*LGousands of more homes in Sichuan and ShaNVB3tl00eTVJf5Rd0qFTGR4&rfnXanxi provinces, addi*8r#YPJxiyDEx2IaHgC4QRW&)6-RuLryuM5ng to the suffering of millions of localQ-I@SD0vL1&XA%QMS residents.

As the frequ5u$ency of follow-up earthquakes does not bAsjO+kR-am7Ai49ode well, a rising number of rural and urban households in Sichuan, its northern Shaanxi and easternX$llBB9q*q Chongqing municipality, have chosen to EVel7*R66IbuIX$gh+0BI-esBsleep outdoors in mafL8F#3L4UTuQrEkeshift tents.

Many of tKsk8SWhdP5squhe more than 400,000 homes that collapseNZRv6ZK)K6ctKBs!p+oFP5aXd in Qingchuan CountdCj+y, Sichuan, and Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, on Tuesday, were somewhat alrealcWMJHK4pMt+140*Ytk37(&JR$@K%rOdy damaged by the inwGoeOqz%#-rhHuitial May 12 magnituh(pDde 8.0 killer earthq%CXdG)$zVUUfMvYPPwhUrF%izuake. Several dozensTP j7yTsD3@tt$5xLS($ are reportedly hurtPUG. The two quakes, on a magnitude of 5-plus and only half an Q^%+j^+5-hour apart, were a r(a62!vVKSIyM2Q%HHdOK6Teminder that the criDC3#Q7wQO)znUWVkl722(pTkyC%QAEdsis in the region and anxieties of the rxjesidents are unlikely to dissipate any time soon.

Flood feJ!)l8*ggXHars force huge evacuation

More than 150,00KqHh3$c8ZhfrA#d7DbgrD0 people who face thn*3M6eZYsrUF xfz+V9%D)e^!1e threat of flooding, should an eay#OJ+P+fdeH1QKtTTCA7Yrthquake-created dampug9b) NTnphvjelvhRFF6PHbmT(u near Beichuan burst its banks, wNKojb5gVSwV*z4PLH&T%lGaHh+DJxztY*here evacuated last nxximI!eight even as enginee&!E$zxJ4Y6wLXLf8hHYmYy*f-LSlZ3ZPrs were digging a diversion channel to p#Buarevent flooding.

An aerial view of Tangjiashan lake (in red box) FnWFpE9DSq@Onear Beichuan county*XtwLSre%%-XK SF*Ch5H45AI May 27, 2008. Troopx5MMlF^iTdF&!toqmC@Wi59ymF2&s were digging a divVersion channel to prevent the lake from ^o6-lZ)voAlgFsOHHbursting its banks a7I*o82uTIy*kB(VBh-Lgl*A C$$-MW)mnd threatening more +VDaAk1kZrSJ(KaJlmisery to millions of people downstream.6joAK^d6 SyjtOiu^*pVRmpzl-@**m2i+-GzKo8 [China Daily]

Local authorities said th-bey evacuated 158,000 people by midnight VPy8)KQ0QrhY5WTuesday in case TangiG)zanwLl^4N#XMNl5b43jiashan lake - formed when landslides blocked Jianjiang River after the May 12 qr8@ncEMnRZSpT-y y*UDE-i+L1KBPixeMWc3XXuake - overflows its banks.

Accortxa3sjl246IQP01iVding to contingency 7WLDJ NV0T^6p5BJU6jiV-RPplans, up to 1.3 mild8%m+fkONNHzphiF9lion people from 33 townships of Mianyang city could be reloa&gwdLb1^9cated if the lake baU 2jgK9YYmnzi+uz9ddte5dL!arrier collapsed enti1ddN8%DtE*j#unIyN+dRvrely.

Premier Wen Jiabao told a m! B2fMluWmQS()oHBooDK9S-m5wuro-520peeting of the State 1p%8SCouncil quake relief headquarters TuesdauoYai9TFhleuibPD#S6xHgWl4UI22+j!y that handling the quake lakes is the " jNmost pressing" task at present.

T$W4yImvqg%gbrVWBsO2$$eR4hMFuU-oWLLqb-Khe water level in thYosle Tangjiashan lake has kept rising and the water diversion czRFhannel won't be effective till June 5, eGM%K%SA0dijMTc*N%y6xperts said Tuesday.MGISf34ji3v-WJILnS$$5@$w7xcIVI&A0Ztj

Tangjiashan lake was holding 130W million cu m of water - or the volume ogE^gWD7g$r^LqovGRbb9ds4rV%PI&m99T*AtbPf water in about 50,000 Olympic-size swi*lTHA5^XfMJ127%J6JB@o&G)g bmming pools - said LUz&p)D)N)q*2tEiu Ning, chief engineer of the Ministry -rblJrrzH5TQq^4gGlDMkA9TTwPp&vi$pQa6Wof Water Resources w+%0stGt(Td8HkFManM@Bbzk+4 +kVgHs5gh%ho was at the site tUUFjwGo+o oversee the diversion work.

Mor^YF%LygD-76A F A*uzzUKp*pge than 600 engineers-87JB#(( SOk5ToaXDZ#T* and soldiers were working nonstop at the lake site to dig the channel.