China's top legislator Wu Bangguo on Tuesday morning visited the Zipingpu dam, over the Yangtze River's main tributary of Minjiang River in quake-hit Sichuan Province.

Previously, he visited the Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the massive May 12 earthquake in southwest China.

The dam is about 17 kilometers from Wenchuan and might threaten millions of lives at the downstream Chengdu Plain once it collapses.

Wu left Beijing on Monday to direct disaster relief work in the quake-ravaged province. Shortly after his arrival at the provincial capital of Chengdu, he visited a local hospital and a distribution center of relief goods.

Wu is now chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, or the top legislature, and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

(Xinhua News Agency May 27, 2008)