Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived at Guangyuan City in southwest China"s Sichuan Province Thursday morning.Wen went to Qingchuan County, one of the worst-hit area of Guangyuan City by train to oversee rescue work and visit survivors. Wen went to Qingchuan County, one of the worst-hit area of Guangyuan City by train to oversee rescue work and visit survivors. Wen pays a visit to Beichuan County, which neighbors the epicenter of the massive quake in southwest China"s Sichuan Province, May 14, 2008. Wen Jiabao arrived on Wednesday at Beichuan County, one of the regions worst hit by Monday"s massive earthquake, to oversee the rescue work.Xinhua agency. 

In Wenchuan county,mountain regions, China,the food supplies,aid are dropped from air in Villages, towns and roads, areas cut off from the main roads,at the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in southwest Sichuan province as the toll mounted to nearly 20,000 with thousands of people still buried, trapped or missing.

The troops reached the quake-battered areas near the epicentre, the state media reported that the death toll in Mianyang city alone rose from 3629 to 5,540 with 18,486 more buried and 1,396 missing.

The road from Dujiangyan, a city northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu, to the epicenter, is still blocked by rocks and mud slides, holding up rescue, medical and other disaster relief teams. The armed police and other rescuers had to reach the epicenter and other severely affected regions by air, water and even on foot.

Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, only 2,300 people were believed to have survived out of 10,000 people living in the town near the epicentre, official Xinhua news agency said. It had earlier reported a toll of over 12,000 in the quake.

The toll was expected to rise further once rescuers reach other towns in Wenchuan.Few towns near the epicentre have been “razed to the ground" with no houses left standing, a police official was quoted by the state media as saying.

“The losses have been severe. Some towns basically have no houses left. They have all been razed to the ground," Wang Yi, head of an armed police unit sent into the disaster zone, was quoted as saying by Sichuan Online news site.

Around 20,000 soldiers had landed in the disaster-struck areas, another 30,000 en route by air, road and rail and on foot and the People"s Liberation Army (PLA) has ordered 30,000 more troops to reinforce the disaster relief, the agency said. China dropped supplies,aid from from air in Villages, towns and roads areas cut off near the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in southwest Sichuan province as the toll mounted to nearly 20,000 with thousands of people still buried, trapped or missing.

The troops reached the quake-battered areas near the epicentre, the state media reported that the death toll in Mianyang city alone rose from 3629 to 5,540 with 18,486 more buried and 1,396 missing.

Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, only 2,300 people were believed to have survived out of 10,000 people living in the town near the epicentre, official Xinhua news agency said. It had earlier reported a toll of over 12,000 in the quake.

The toll was expected to rise further once rescuers reach other towns in Wenchuan.Few towns near the epicentre have been “razed to the ground" with no houses left standing, a police official was quoted by the state media as saying.

“The losses have been severe. Some towns basically have no houses left. They have all been razed to the ground," Wang Yi, head of an armed police unit sent into the disaster zone, was quoted as saying by Sichuan Online news site.

Around 20,000 soldiers had landed in the disaster-struck areas, another 30,000 en route by air, road and rail and on foot and the People"s Liberation Army (PLA) has ordered 30,000 more troops to reinforce the disaster relief, the agency said.

The first batch of elite soldiers from airborne special force were parachuted into Maoxian county. Storms,rain, the Inclement weather had initially hampered rescue operations. 
Forty-four counties and districts in Sichuan were severely affected by the quake. About half of the 20 million population in these areas were directly affected by the quake, according to the meeting. China"s air force will deploy 60 more helicopters and the other 30 will be provided by the civil aviation industry, according to the headquarters headed by Wen himself.  China"s air force, army aviation and civil aviation have made ever largest noncombat air operation since Monday, mobilizing more than 150 airplanes in various relief missions.    The air force has deployed more than 40 transporters which delivered about 8,600 rescuers and 200 tons of materials with more than 130 flights in 48 hours after quake

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