Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his inspection team make way for rescuers who are carrying an injured girl to Beichuan County from Qushan Town two kilometers away. The Chinese Premier arrived at Beichuan County Wednesday morning, May 14, 2008. [Photo Xinhua]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives at Beichuan County Wednesday morning, May 14, 2008. An ambulanceman introduces situations of the injured in the earthquake to Premier Wen Jiabao at Beichuan County. [Photo: Xinhua]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives at Beichuan County Wednesday morning, May 14, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives at Beichuan County Wednesday morning, May 14, 2008. Premier Wen Jiabao listens carefully to an ambulanceman on situations of the injured people in the earthquake. [Photo: Xinhua]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets several American volunteers who are lending a helping hand and expresses his gratitude for their aid on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in Qushan Town, Beichuan County, one of the regions worst hit by Monday's massive earthquake.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao comforts a crying girl who lost her parents during the earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in Sichuan Province. The premier visits quake victims in the province's Mianyang City on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
"Please just hold on, people are going to get you out of there! " Premier Wen Jiabao tells the people trapped in the collapsed buildings of the hospital in a loudspeaker Monday night, May 12, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
Premier Wen Jiabao picks up a shoe and a schoolbag from debris of the Juyuan Middle School building collapsed in the powerful earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province May 12, 2008. Nearly 900 students were trapped in collapsed building and at least 50 were confirmed dead. In Sichuan Province, at least 8,533 have died in the quake, with the epicenter in Wenchuan county. [Photo: Xinhua]
Premier Wen Jiabao (R), saddened by the losses of lives in the powerful earthquake in Sichuan, greets a resident in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province May 12, 2008. Wen arrived in Sichuan to guide the quake rescue efforts. [Photo: Xinhua]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sits by the ruins of a classroom building that collapsed during Monday's earthquake, paying close attention to the rescue operation to retrieve a trapped primary school student on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in Dujiangyan City in Sichuan Province. [Photo: Xinhua]