On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in Western China. By the next day, the death toll stood at 12,000, with another 18,000 still missing. Over 15 million people live in the affected area, including almost 4 million in the city of Chengdu. Nearly 2,000 of the dead were students and teachers caught in schools that collapsed.
Dujiangyan is one of eight disaster districts where CNC facility hit heavily in this earthquake. The main computer room in the city suffers the varying degree damage; the infrastructure suffers the serious destruction and the city power supply and water supply interrupt. After the earthquake occurs, the State Bureau of Seismology set up the earthquake relief work Control center in Dujiangyan, and requests to provide the fixed-line telephone and broadband communication service as soon as possible. The new Greennet’s staff assists CNC to launch the emergency rescue effort immediately after the earthquake, formulate the plan and the organize construction. Passing through several day and nights continual working, on the 15th evening, it has provided the Internet special line finally and has provided the 7*24 hour safeguard service of all switching equipment for the State Bureau of Seismology Control center to create the advantage for the earthquake information monitoring and the disaster situation information acquisition.
At present, the relief donations of the New Greennet have been handed over to the Red Cross in Shenzhen and resources and protection needs of the disaster areas have actively deploy to the disaster area. New Greennet has sent several batches of emergency equipment for these areas to restore a variety of communications and Sichuan local staff are cooperating with the operators to speed up the restoration of communication services in the disaster areas in order to provide effective relief to protect communications, and help the people of disaster areas to overcome the crisis and build a wonderful homeland.
