Medical staffs and rescue cargos across China were on the way to the quake-hit southwest China early Tuesday morning, according to reports from Xinhua's regional bureaus.

China Eastern Airlines said it has dispatched four aircrafts carrying hundreds of rescue personnel and tons of cargos from east China cities of Shanghai, Jinan, Nanjing, Ningbo and central city of Zhengzhou to Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan, where the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks killed nearly 10,000 people on Monday.

The company vowed to add more planes on the air routes to guarantee the transportation for the disaster relief.

Meanwhile, hundreds of doctors in eastern provinces of Shandong and Anhui and northeast China's Liaoning Province have got prepared to go to Sichuan in time of need.

China's leading telecommunication companies on Tuesday made a public calling via a radio station in Sichuan that phone calls to the province should be short in order to leave the communication channel open for others.

Damages of communication lines in the quake affected areas have made thousands of quake victims out of telecommunication reaches.

Donations and disaster relief goods were raised in many Chinese provinces such as Shandong, Hebei and Henan.

Shandong has prepared drug and medical instruments in addition an emergent donation of three million yuan (about US$428,000) to the quake-ravaged Sichuan.

Thousands of tents are on the way to the disaster areas from southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and central Henan Province. Tents were the most needed relief cargo for thousands of quake survivors living on streets.

(Xinhua News Agency May 13, 2008)