Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged civil affairs departments to effectively manage quake relief supplies and timely deliver them to quake victims.

While visiting civil affairs staff of Sichuan Province on Friday, Hui asked them to faithfully implement the central government's policies on quake relief and transparently deliver donations from various channels to the victims.

He visited the lobby of Sichuan Provincial Civil Affairs Department where donations were handled, and listened to a report by the department on donation management and distribution, relocation of homeless people and accommodation of orphans and the childless aged.

The vice premier praised the hardworking staff and reminded them that quake relief would be a lasting and arduous task.

"We should timely deliver relief supplies to ensure people in quake-hit regions can get food and clothes as well as other necessities," he said, noting that corpses would be properly buried or cremated to give their families psychological consultation.

He urged the staff to transfer all homeless people to safe residences including tents, prefabricated houses and other makeshift shelters.

"We should properly accommodate orphans, the childless aged and the disabled," he said.

He also told them to register relief supplies carefully and justly and transparently handle relief supplies.

"As to the donations, timely feedback must be given to donators," he said.

(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2008)