(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-02 08:50

Qu kept walking from the rescue headquarter to the destroyed county for seven days, shouting at every corner where chance of survival might exist.

"We would try 100 percent as long as their is hope of 0.1percent," he told the rescue team.

He was not fighting alone. The CPC has set up nearly 1,000temporary branches in quake-battered areas to help with relief work.

In a major settlement in Qingchuan County, where 4,663 people died in the earthquake, a table, a telephone on the ground and five CPC members are the temporary party branch for more than 1,200 residents of 80 tents.

"Although we have no office, we surely play an important role in easing people's minds, maintaining social order and leading the work of epidemic prevention," said Wang Shoulun, head of the tiny branch.

The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has ordered the Party's organization organs at all levels to quickly mobilize Party members and officials at the grass roots level to devote themselves to disaster relief.

The ability of the CPC leadership to mobilize resources nationwide and launch major rescue work immediately has won it wide support, both at home and abroad, analysts say.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao played a model role after flying to the quake-zone, clambering overshattered buildings and comforting weeping children.

"Where there are Communist Party members, there is hope. They really did a good job," a netizen said on the People.com. website.

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