国内英语新闻:Vice Premier stresses post-quake reconstruction as survivors plan for new life

YUSHU, Qinghai, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Saturday stressed that the quake relief work in northwest China's Qinghai Province should focus on resettling survivors and the area's reconstruction.

"The focus should now be shifted from searching the quake victims and treating the injured and building temporary shelters to resettling survivors, restoring social order and carrying out reconstruction," Hui said at a meeting held Friday night in Qinghai.

Saturday was the last day for rescuers to comb the quake-hit Yushu region in a bid to find survivors buried underneath the rubble.

Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu (2nd R) visits a woman injured in earthquake in Gyegu Town of quake-hit Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, northwest China's Qinghai Province, April 23, 2010.

The death toll from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14 climbed to 2,203 as of 5 p.m. Saturday, with 73 people still missing, more than 12,000 injured, tens of thousands of residential buildings flattened and huge economic losses.