Within hours, people
rushed to rescue. Blood donation lines
run for 100 yards, and people waited hours to donate blood; within 24 hours, all major
blood banks ran out storage space. The highway to the earthquake struck city
Dujianyang (20 mile from Chengdu) was almost jammed one hour
after the earthquake, not by people fleeing the aftershocks, but by
volunteers, led by over 1,000 taxi drivers, came from Chengdu to
rescue.
Chen Guangbiao(陈光标),
owner of a big construction company 1,500 miles from the disaster
area, just 2 hour 30 minutes after the earthquake, started transporting 60 construction
machineries and led 120 volunteers to
rescue. They arrived at the disaster area 24 hours later, almost the
same time as Army Engineering Corp.