2025 China Earthquake Response

SITUATION UPDATE: January 13, 2025

At 9:05 on January 7, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Dingri County in Xigaze City, Xizang Autonomous Region, China. According to state media, as of 19:00 on the 7th, the earthquake in Dingri County, Xigaze City, has resulted in 126 deaths and 188 injuries, with thousands of houses damaged. Currently, the Office of the State Council’s Earthquake Relief Command and the Ministry of Emergency Management have upgraded the national earthquake emergency response from level three to level two. The Office of the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management have also upgraded the national disaster relief emergency response from level four to level three. The Xizang Autonomous Region has initiated a level two response.

IMMEDIATE NEEDS

The disaster is urgent, and humanitarian relief has been urgently activated. Based on the disaster situation and after preliminary assessment, it is planned to carry out the relief for the Xigaze earthquake in Xizang Autonomous Region in three stages: emergency rescue, transitional resettlement, and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

1. Emergency Rescue Stage: Warmth supplies, including cotton quilts, military greatcoats, heating stoves, and water-warmed blankets. Food supplies, including emergency food and grains and oils. Humanitarian rescue emergency kits, providing material assistance to meet the actual needs of the affected people in their daily lives, aiming to solve the basic living needs of the affected people within 15 days after the disaster.
2. Transitional Resettlement Stage: To help the affected people and villages quickly clean up houses and village roads and resume production and life, post-disaster work-for-relief home cleaning projects and equipment assistance projects will be initiated according to the actual situation of the disaster area.
3. Post-Disaster Reconstruction Stage: After the disaster, the affected areas urgently need to rebuild their homes. Reconstruction work will be carried out in aspects such as rural community health disinfection, repair and reconstruction of small bridges, roads, and houses, recovery and development of industries, construction of small water supply facilities, campus disaster reduction classroom projects, and emergency station projects, to help the people in the disaster area resume production and life.

CURRENT PROGRAMS & PARTNERS

Give2Asia will continue to develop partnerships with organizations supporting relief and recovery. During this emergency response phase, Give2Asia is supporting the work of our partners with a range of program priorities, from providing urgent basic needs such as food, clean water, and health services to ensuring access to education for children, and economic rehabilitation services. Give2Asia is proud to work with the Partners listed below: 

China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD) Disaster Program 

Established in 1989, the China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD), formerly known as the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, is a major Chinese charity focused on reducing poverty. CFRD operates locally and nationally, particularly in Southwest China. They partner with Give2Asia for disaster response and recovery. Since 2012, CFRD has conducted 360 disaster relief operations, benefiting 31 regions across China and disaster-stricken areas in 12 countries, aiding 8.14 million people. 

In response to the earthquake, CFRD went to 13 affected villages in 6 townships of 3 counties, namely Changsuo Township and Nixia Township in Dingri County, Quxia Town and Xiqin Township in Lazi County, and Xiongmai Township and Mabujia Township in Sa’gya County, to carry out disaster assessment and needs evaluation. So far, a total of 4 batches with 22 people have been dispatched to the disaster area to carry out rescue operations in the disaster area. A frontline rescue center has been set up in Xigaze City, and disaster relief workstations have been established in Dingri County, Sa’gya County, and Lazi County to help the frontline rescue work to be carried out in an orderly manner.

As of January 11, the China Foundation for Rural Development has provided disaster relief materials worth about 28.13 million yuan to the affected areas of Dingri County, Lazi County, and Sa’gya County in Xigaze City. These include 55,134 pieces of warm-keeping materials such as cotton tents, cotton quilts, greatcoats, electric blankets, and water-heated blankets; 4,734 pieces of emergency food such as roasted barley flour, self-heating rice, bread, and mineral water; 31,297 pieces of living security materials such as humanitarian relief emergency boxes, flour and oil packages, and rice and oil packages; 164 sets of equipment materials such as excavators and loaders; and 456 tons of biomass fuel.

HOW TO GIVE

All donations received by Give2Asia will help affected communities in China. Give2Asia will publish more details on the needs emerging in the coming days and weeks—and report on every dollar granted for relief and recovery. 

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China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD) is part of Give2Asia’s prepositioned DisasterLink network. See here for further information.