China\’s Red Cross launches disaster relief in landslide-hit area in SW China

BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) — The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has allocated 1,000 sets of disaster relief materials to Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong City of southwest China\’s Yunnan Province, where a landslide occurred on Monday morning.

The materials, which include tents, cotton quilts and winter jackets, were allocated from a reserve based in the province, the society said.

The provincial branch of the RCSC has dispatched working teams to the landslide-hit area to join local branches at the city and county levels in the rescue mission, the RCSC said.

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