Workers help local residents to recharge their mobile phones and batteries at a mobile charging station after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Lushan county, Yaan city, southwest Chinas Sichuan province, 21 April 2013. The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. Chinas full range of disaster response is on display: Trucks with x-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels, even a tent for insurance claims. The efforts under way on Monday (22 April 2013) in mountainous Sichuan province after a quake Saturday that killed at least 188 people showed that the government has continued to hone its disaster reaction, long considered a crucial leadership test in China, since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the western region of Yushu.
