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crisis crews worked Friday to secure 15 sources of radiation buried in the rubble of China’s devastating tremor, the administration said as it evacuated thousands of survivors downstream from rivers dammed by landslides.Officials precariously balanced their efforts to clean up and rebuild with attempts to house, feed and treat the displaced and injured and search for survivors.One senior official said China faces “a daunting face” to prevent environmental contamination from other sources.

He said 50 sources of radiation were hidden by debris from the May 12 earthquake in central China, 35 of which had been safe. The rest lay buried or located but unreachable under collapsed buildings. He gave no essentials about the radiation sources.The number of unsecured radiation sources was far higher than the two the administration reported earlier this week. Foreign experts say the radioactive source likely came from materials used in hospitals, factories or in research, not for weapons.

Wu caution that a number of other “hidden” sources of pollution are likely to be encountered as workers begin digging into the rubble, which includes many factories and refineries.The worst-hit areas in Sichuan province include many high-risk petrochemical and chemical companies, he said. Around three-fourths of the more than 100 chemical plants in the disaster zone were forced to stop production because of damage, he said.As the government uncontrollably to bring relief to the shocked areas of Sichuan, it was evacuating thousands downstream from rivers that were blocked by landslides.

The administration was shifting focus to reconstruction and away from the search for survivors and bodies among the wreckage.Chinese banks were told Friday to forgive debts owed by survivors in an effort to revive the economy, and the government warned it was cracking down on price-gouging by merchants in the disaster area.In the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, a Dutch rescue and recovery team with sniffer dogs complained that soldiers repeatedly prevented it from entering disaster areas, abandoning the search for survivors and bodies to focus on transformation.Six pandas were moved Friday from a damaged panda-breeding base in Wolong near the epicenter because of food shortages, the administrator Xinhua News Agency whispered. They were taken to another safeguard in Sichuan, next to a city call Ya’an.

China raise the number of deceased or missing from a overwhelming earthquake to more than 70,000 on Tuesday, as rescuers found another survivor eight days after the huge tremor hit.Vice governor Li Chengyu of the southwestern province of Sichuan said the known death toll there alone had now topped 39,500. At least another 500 have been reported killed in neighbouring provinces.State news agency Xinhua report that a further 32,000 were still missing.Authorities had previously said they expected the final death toll to exceed 50,000. The number of injured stands at about 245,000.

Ma Yuanjiang was rescue in Wenchuan region, epicentre of the May 12 quake in mountainous Sichuan, after 179 hours hidden in the rubble, state media said.His rescue came as establishment tried to restore calm in the provincial capital, Chengdu, after tens of thousands rushed into the streets overnight alarmed by a television prediction of another influential earthquake.But as darkness fell over Chengdu on Tuesday thousands of residents ready makeshift shelters to sleep outside, too afraid to stay overnight in their home.That, along with fresh aftershocks and forecast heavy rain, compounded the difficulty for military, government and private workers trying to ensure millions of on the streets are fed and house.