China to bring citizens home
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March 16, 2011, Wednesday
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China is evacuating citizens from the areas worst affected by Japan's earthquake and subsequent damage to nuclear reactors.
The country's embassy in Japan yesterday called for an orderly evacuation of Chinese nationals "due to the seriousness of and uncertainty surrounding the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant."
The embassy has been working hard to rescue and help Chinese citizens affected by last Friday's massive earthquake and resulting tsunami, a notice on its website said.
"We hope our compatriots in the worst-hit disaster areas remain calm, listen to instructions, understand and cooperate with the evacuation operation," it said.
The embassy in Tokyo and the Chinese consulate in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures to pick up Chinese nationals.
Earlier, the Japanese government said levels of radiation released by damaged reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were high enough to threaten human health.
Chinese diplomats were visiting the areas to assist Japanese officials, said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jinag Yu in Beijing.
Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Commerce said there had been no contact with 261 Chinese people in Japan's quake-hit regions as of 10am yesterday. But local commerce departments and the China International Contractors Association had succeeded in contacting 22,155 Chinese people in those areas and there were no reports of Chinese casualties so far.
The ministry reminded Chinese companies to verify the situation of their workers and trainees in Japan, to keep in touch with China's representative offices in the country, and to postpone sending staff there.
China's tourism authorities also said that there had been no reports of casualties among the 2,103 tourists who were still in Japan.
Local tourism authorities in the country's 11 provinces and municipalities, including Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing, confirmed that no one among their 78 tourist groups had been injured or killed, the National Tourism Administration said.
In Shanghai, tourism authorities said that all the tourists from the city who were on trips to Japan would be back in China today.
Officials at the city's Hongqiao International Airport said that no tour groups had set out for Japan during the past three days, while more people than usual had returned.
Relatives were out in force at the airport yesterday to welcome their loved ones home. Some parents had bought first-class tickets for their children to get them home as soon as possible.
Air China canceled three flights to Tokyo yesterday where planes would have had to stay in Japan overnight. There was concern their safety couldn't be guaranteed in the event of any aftershocks.
It canceled a flight from Shanghai to Tokyo's Narita Airport and two flights from Beijing to Narita and Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
But the Beijing-based carrier is still operating 30 flights between China and Japan daily.
China Eastern Airlines said it had suspended flights to Fukushima but its other flights, 50 a day, were operating normally. China Southern Airlines said its flights to Tokyo had resumed.
The country's embassy in Japan yesterday called for an orderly evacuation of Chinese nationals "due to the seriousness of and uncertainty surrounding the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant."
The embassy has been working hard to rescue and help Chinese citizens affected by last Friday's massive earthquake and resulting tsunami, a notice on its website said.
"We hope our compatriots in the worst-hit disaster areas remain calm, listen to instructions, understand and cooperate with the evacuation operation," it said.
The embassy in Tokyo and the Chinese consulate in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures to pick up Chinese nationals.
Earlier, the Japanese government said levels of radiation released by damaged reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were high enough to threaten human health.
Chinese diplomats were visiting the areas to assist Japanese officials, said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jinag Yu in Beijing.
Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Commerce said there had been no contact with 261 Chinese people in Japan's quake-hit regions as of 10am yesterday. But local commerce departments and the China International Contractors Association had succeeded in contacting 22,155 Chinese people in those areas and there were no reports of Chinese casualties so far.
The ministry reminded Chinese companies to verify the situation of their workers and trainees in Japan, to keep in touch with China's representative offices in the country, and to postpone sending staff there.
China's tourism authorities also said that there had been no reports of casualties among the 2,103 tourists who were still in Japan.
Local tourism authorities in the country's 11 provinces and municipalities, including Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing, confirmed that no one among their 78 tourist groups had been injured or killed, the National Tourism Administration said.
In Shanghai, tourism authorities said that all the tourists from the city who were on trips to Japan would be back in China today.
Officials at the city's Hongqiao International Airport said that no tour groups had set out for Japan during the past three days, while more people than usual had returned.
Relatives were out in force at the airport yesterday to welcome their loved ones home. Some parents had bought first-class tickets for their children to get them home as soon as possible.
Air China canceled three flights to Tokyo yesterday where planes would have had to stay in Japan overnight. There was concern their safety couldn't be guaranteed in the event of any aftershocks.
It canceled a flight from Shanghai to Tokyo's Narita Airport and two flights from Beijing to Narita and Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
But the Beijing-based carrier is still operating 30 flights between China and Japan daily.
China Eastern Airlines said it had suspended flights to Fukushima but its other flights, 50 a day, were operating normally. China Southern Airlines said its flights to Tokyo had resumed.
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