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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam China's Hu tells quake rescuers to keep searching AFP - Monday, April 19 Send IM Story Print JIEGU, China (AFP) - – Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday called on rescuers to keep searching for survivors as he visited victims of a powerful quake in the country's northwest that left more than 1,700 dead. The Chinese leader, who had cut short a Latin American tour, promised new homes and schools as he reached out to victims on a visit to the region hit four days ago by a 6.9-magnitude quake that killed 1,706 people and left 256 missing. Just before his arrival, spirits were lifted by the rescue of a 68-year-old man who was trapped beneath rubble for more than 100 hours, the official Xinhua news agency reported, adding the man's condition was stable. In a departure from his usually formal style, Hu stood amid the rubble in Jiegu, the largest city affected by the earthquake, and urged rescuers to keep going. "We will do our best to rescue people still trapped. If there is even one chance (of finding someone), we will make an all-out effort," he said in one of several scenes from his visit shown on state television. At another stop, the Chinese leader told a crowd through a megaphone the government would provide essentials such as food, drinking water, shelter, quilts and warm clothing. "The earthquake is merciless but human beings have compassion," Hu told the crowd, adopting a warmth more usually associated with Premier Wen Jiabao. In a makeshift hospital, Hu put an arm around a bed-ridden young woman wearing a sling. "Grandpa Hu will think of you," he said, patting her shoulder as she wept. "There will be new schools! There will be new homes!" he wrote in chalk on a blackboard while visiting orphans in a tent turned into a classroom, Xinhua reported. More than 100 students and 12 teachers died as schools and dormitories collapsed and dozens more people remain missing, state media reported. The reports did not say whether Hu spoke about efforts to ensure schools can withstand earthquakes -- a highly sensitive issue since thousands of children died in May 2008 in the huge Sichuan quake, in which many school buildings collapsed while neighbouring structures stood firm. More than 6,000 people have been pulled alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. The number of personnel aiding rescue and recovery operations on the Tibetan Plateau has risen to 15,000. On the streets of Jiegu, boxes of bottled water were dropped to help residents cope with water shortages as aid continued to pour in. Infrastructure in Jiegu suffered major damage in the quake, with the water supply "basically paralysed", Xia Xueping, spokesman for relief efforts, said. Officials have warned of a growing threat of disease due to sanitation risks including damage to water supplies that could leave them polluted, although no such outbreaks had yet been reported. The Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a separatist and was born in Qinghai province, has appealed to Chinese authorities to allow him to visit the quake zone, where more than 12,000 people were injured and 100,000 left homeless. In Jiegu, residents were talking excitedly about the possibility of the Tibetan spiritual leader visiting for the first time since he fled after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. "Everyone would like to see the Dalai Lama come here. He should come here," said 52-year-old Dorje, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, as he circled a local temple in a daily prayer ritual. "The Dalai Lama was born in Qinghai (province)," he said with a smile. "I think the government will allow him to come home." However, it appeared unlikely Beijing would allow the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to visit the crippled area. Tibetan Buddhist monks wearing maroon-and-saffron robes have been a prominent part of the rescue effort, digging by hand in search of survivors after the quake pancaked traditional mud and wood homes. Monks cremated hundreds of victims on Saturday as hopes dimmed of finding further survivors and rising fears of disease. The scale of the calamity and fears of disease forced a break from traditional Tibetan "sky burials" in which corpses are left on mountaintops to decompose or be consumed by vultures. Health authorities are particularly concerned that marmots who emerged from their burrows after the quake could spread pneumonic plague, Xinhua cited Jie Xuehui, a provincial health official, as saying. A team of 16 quarantine workers and 10 plague specialists, equipped with disinfection vehicles and medicines and vaccines had been deployed, Jie said. Relief efforts have been complicated by sub-zero temperatures at night and scant oxygen due to the altitude -- around 4,000 metres (13,000 feet). 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