China's top legislator Wu Bangguo on Tuesday afternoon visited quake victims in a relocation center in Dujiangyan, one of the worst-hit cities in southwestern Sichuan Province.

Earlier in the morning, Wu also visited Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the massive May 12 earthquake, and the Zipingpu dam.

The dam, over the Yangtze River's main tributary of Minjiang River, 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 Sichuan 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 chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's 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)