The sudden magnitude 8 earthquake crushes our formerly quiet life. To the biggest and most destructive disaster, various circles of the society all make quick response and are tightly connected with victims in the quake-hit areas. Partners and sponsor enterprises of Expo Shanghai also extend their quickest care and actively organize donations and involve in quake relief work rapidly. They express their care and love to the victims with practical activities.

China East Air -- Establishing a rescue team and transport emergency quake relief materials

"Baby, wait for uncle, the plane will take you back. There are thousands of warm hands, ready to calm down your trembling and cure you bleeding wound. Don't cry, don't be sad, remember our promise, and come back to the brand new and familiar home with mother. That is home with uncles and aunts from all over China." This is poem to children in the quake-hit areas written by an aviator of China East Air who involves in quake relief work. It warms up all of us.

However, what beyond the affectionate wording is hard work of China East Air staff in quake relief work with several aircrafts to transport victims and quake relief materials. Several hundreds of quake relief flights are arranged from Luoyang, Xi'an, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hefei, Shijiazhuang, Guilin and Kunming to Chengdu and Mianyang to transport over ten thousand quake victims and thousands of tons quake relief materials and medical instruments and evacuate over 30 thousand passengers stuck in quake-hit areas. Several civil helicopters are put in use of airdropping quake relief work. Representatives from Shanghai Aviation Department and Engineering Technology Department of China East Air establish 10 quake relief rescue teams. Team members solemnly swear that: with motherland in heart, perform the duty honestly, ensure safety, securing all out, assist quake-hit areas, devote love and care and achieve final success of the quake relief work!

China East Air also carries out the "quake relief love month" activity and launches 6 quake relief measures: organize "assistance from neighborhood watches and borderless love" activity, i.e., organizing staff to donate money and materials; create "green channel", i.e., modifying civil passenger aircraft to provide rapid service for rescue team and the injured and ensure rescue personnel boarding at the first time and give priority to loading and unloading of luggage; provide rapid and reliable logistics for quake relief materials, speed up check-in procedures for quake relief materials and baggage of loading and unloading quake relief materials and rescue team; give priority to transportation of quake relief materials so as to arrange flights carrying quake relief materials taking off as early as practical; reserve enough backup transportation capacity to take the mission of "lifeline in the air" and ensure completion of various emergency tasks assigned by the State and local governments; carry out activity of "RMB 10 is donated for each ticket sold", i.e., RMB 10 is donated once each domestic and international air ticket is sold in order to support quake relief work and reconstruction after earthquake.

China Mobile -- Urgently repair communication Facilities and Open Life and Care Hotline

In this earthquake, facilities of China Mobile are severely destroyed. To the worst, over 4000 base stations are out of service. Total length of optical fiber cable covered in Sichuan province reaches 6,000 kilometers, among which 866.5 kilometers are disconnected. In order to provide timely communication for quake relief, China Mobile spare not efforts to allocate important equipments such as GSM main equipments, generators, satellite equipments and antenna and urgently repair and restore communication. On May 16, as sudden magnetite 5.9 aftershock stuck Lixian County, staff of China Mobile aged 36, Liu Jianqiu, who was repairing the cables in Guergou Town at the Section from Maerkang to Lixian County was unfortunately hit by flying stones of landslide and bravely devoted his young life. However, there're about over 20,000 employees of China Mobile who are working at the frontline regardless of danger to their life. With unremitting efforts, on May 16, China Mobile successfully built the satellite emergency base station in Wenchuan of Sichuan Province. The communication is restored for the whole county seat and communication for administrative regions above county level is connected through coordinated operation of fiber cable connected to base station and emergency communication vehicle.

In order to ensure smooth communication of the quake-hit area, China Mobile established quake relief service station in area where people gather together like square, station, airport, hospital, operation network to provide emergency service for free like safe arrival phone. In addition, China Mobile also open 10086 life and care hotline to provide hotline service of "looking for family member and relatives" and "safe arrival" to quake victims. Only within a few days, the life and care hotline has successfully helped about 20,000 victim households to find their family members and make thousands of separated families gather together.

China Telecom - Technicians arrive at quake hit area to take urgent repair

"The phone is finally connected, three members of our family are found………" Messages of life and help flying via Telecom from Sichuan are rapid reflected to each related quake relief department. It is the communication line that helps us to find signals of fresh life and extend the rescue strength in frontline. The true love and affection move every participant. A lot of moving stories are creating during the process of listening, feedback and relief of our telephone service personnel and volunteers. "I just want to do something for the quake-hit areas"; "function of each base station may save people's lives". Employees of China Telecom, with firm faith, start the quake relief communication safeguarding campaign hand in hand at the frontline of quake relief work.

While, at background, Shanghai Telecom also spares no effort to support all-out support to rescue team and medical care team, including providing maritime satellite telephone to ensure communication for blind communication zone. Employees of emergency communication bureau carry 4 kinds of communication facilities like VSAT satellite ground station, emergency communication vehicle/diesel generator set, programmable exchange satellite communication and wireless connection to the quake-hit areas, which provides communication security for quake relief work.

In order to ensure Sichuan workers in Shanghai get connected with their family timely, Shanghai Telecom business offices open free family long-distance call to the quake hit-area, and provide 80 special lines of 114 Sichuan inquiry service to five districts of Sichuan such as Panzhihua, Luzhou, Guangyuan, Suining, Aba. Shanghai Telecom opens 114 quake relief donation hotlines jointly with Shanghai Red Cross Society jointly and opens a quake relief donation hotline of 968600 jointly with Shanghai Charity Foundation. China Telecom will submit all donations and communication charge for dialing the hotline to Shanghai Red Cross Society as special fund used for the quake-hit areas.

Bank of Communications - Spare no efforts to provide financing support

Bank of Communications has never forgotten its social responsibility in quake relief work. Immediately after the occurring of the earthquake, Bank of Communications has organized staff from branches in Chengdu surrounding areas to actively provide support for the quake-hit areas and transfer materials. A rescue team, organized by more than 10 strong and healthy young volunteers from Chongqing Branch who are skilled in rescue, has gone to Dujiangyan area with plenty of materials and dedicated themselves in quake relief work.

Bank of Communications has urgently dispatched resources to add more ATM and other equipment in purpose of guaranteeing normal operation at the earthquake-hit areas if it safe to do so. Repair was immediately carried out for the heavy ruined network. Since May 15, some branches which stopped business due to the heavy disaster have successively resumed normal business.

In addition, Bank of Communications tries best to maintain the normal operation of the payment system and treasury system, promptly allocates the relief funds appropriated by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Civil Affairs as well as other ministries to relevant units, gives priority to handle with the relief funds remitted to the quake hit areas free of postage, production cost and service fee, gives priority for emergency handling of funds intended for reconstruction, production and operation, and opens an account for donation free of all fees according to local requirements. In addition, Bank of Communications has designated special personnel to check and maintain the ATM which are stored with enough money to ensure 24-hour normal operation of ATM and smooth operation of E-banking. The branches at the quake-hit areas have appropriately extended the service time and provide evening service if necessary, according to the demands of local government and customers.

SAIC GM - donating to support the disaster area

SAIC Group leads all its affiliated enterprises for vehicles and auto parts to donate for the regions stricken by the earthquake in Sichuan province and contribute to earthquake relief. It also rapidly organizes staff to console over 500 employees from Sichuan within the group who are now working in Shanghai and offer help. The foreign management staff in all enterprises of SAIC Group also expressed their personal sympathy for the damage to the Chinese people.

General Motors joins with its joint ventures in China -- Shanghai General Motors and SAIC-GM-Wuling to donate to the regions stricken by the earthquake in Sichuan, China, to support the disaster relief and recovery in this area. Meanwhile, GM China also advocates its employees worldwide to donate to help the people suffering from the disaster, and GM China will also donate the equivalent amount in the ratio of 1:1 according to the amount donated by the staff, to help the stricken areas for rebuilding and the victims to rebuild their lives.

Siemens - Among the first to participate in earthquake emergency relief

Siemens quickly responds to the call of the government and society and continues with the company's disaster relief program "Siemens·Caring Hands" to donate to the people in the worst affected area through China's Red Cross, as one of the first foreign-funded enterprises participating in the earthquake emergency relief.

On May 16, Siemens again donated medical equipments and services as well as advanced water purification units to the areas stricken by the earthquake in Sichuan. In addition, the company has also set up a 24-hour "emergency task force" to ensure smooth operation of the healthcare equipments in the earthquake-hit area and surrounding areas.

Coca Cola - Helping with urgent needs of the victims

After the earthquake, Coco Cola China immediately announced to urgently donate its first relief funds, and transport over 10,000 cartons of drinking water and hundreds of beach umbrellas to the earthquake-hit area, to help with the urgent needs of the victims. After that, Coca Cola USA also donated to China's disaster area through the Red Cross in the States.

President of Coca Cola (China) Beverages Co., Ltd., Douglas A. Jackson said, "We're very worried and always concerned about the people in the disaster area. We're willing to make our contributions to the people there. We hope these donations can do some help to the victims for the disaster relief and recovery. Coca Cola will stay together with the people in the disaster area and get through the difficulties."

State Grid - Working against time to restore power supply

In the face of the sudden disaster of earthquake, the national electrical power departments have taken comprehensive and immediately countermeasures. State Grid initiated emergency plan in no time, and the professional team for emergency repair of power grid summoned from 5 provinces and cities such as Henan, Hunan, Hebei, Chongqing and Jiangxi has arrived in Sichuan to deal with the emergency. State Grid has transferred healthcare professionals, medical vehicles and related medical appliances from its affiliated hospitals to the disaster area in Sichuan, and set up an "Emergency Relief Medical Team of State Grid" to rescue. State Grid has also gathered a lot of generators, distribution transformers, various kinds of insulators, concrete poles and other power materials and equipments from all over China and collected urgently needed materials such as drinking water, foodstuff, tents and medicines etc. to support the earthquake-hit area.

Through great effort and hard work, the disaster relief operation of the State Grid has achieved periodical results. By May 22nd, the power grids in Shanxi, Chongqing and Gansu have completely restored their normal power supply. 52 of the 60 counties stricken by the disaster in the operating area of Sichuan Power Company have basically restored power supply, and the remaining 8 counties are supplying power through emergency power generating vehicles and generators for urgently needed power load, which basically solves the problem with power supply.

PICC - Providing insurance for the rescuers

After the breakout of the earthquake on May 12, PICC Charity Funds immediately donated to the disaster area in Sichuan, for the disaster relief and restoration of normal production and living order. PICC provides accident insurance and accidental injury medical insurance per person to the PLA and armed police officers and soldiers participating in the emergency rescues and disaster relief work; and donates life accident insurance per person to the members of China International Search and Rescue Team. It also offered general insurance to the disaster relief medical team dispatched by Shanghai health authorities.

Baosteel - Rushing out multi-function pre-painted steel plat houses

To meet the demand of the disaster area for rebuilding their homes, Baosteel keeps providing steel plate houses to the disaster area which are anti-seismic and weatherproof. Baosteel is currently working overtime to rush out the steel plate houses urgently needed by the disaster area. It took Baosteel staff only 4 days and 5 nights to rush out the steel plate houses which originally need around 20 days of production cycle for design and production. The first lot of 12-room mobile multi-function pre-painted steel plate houses was transported from Shanghai to the earthquake-hit area in Sichuan by two fleets with 4 vehicles each respectively on May 17 and 18.

With the concern for our fellow citizens, the senior sponsors and project sponsor enterprises of Expo Shanghai also generously contributed to the funds and took advantages of their own resources to help the country and the earthquake victims.

The earthquake is merciless but the world is filled with love. The social responsibility shown by the sponsor enterprises of Expo Shanghai when facing sudden disasters made us see not only so many hearts united but also the unity of will and the courage to conquer difficulties..