China Mobile staffs are continuing to venture into danger areas since the devastating May 12 earthquake rocked southwest China.

On May 26, China Mobile technicians were airlifted to Tangjiashan to help expand the capacity of an emergency base station needed by rescue workers who are desperately trying to drain a huge lake that is at the risk of bursting its banks and flooding communities with thousands of people downstream.

The team succeeded in expanding capacity of the base station at Tangjiashan in Beichuan County, near the epicentre of the quake in Sichuan province, at 9:40 am on May 28.

The huge lake at Tangjiashan, stretching six kilometres along the upper reaches of the Jianjiang River, was formed by landslides caused by the quake. About five million cubic meters of water is being added to the lake per day.

Hundreds of armed police and military personnel as well as engineers are working around the clock to drain more than 100 million cubic meters of water in the lake.

The Sichuan branch of China Mobile airlifted a satellite base station to the area on May 18, and sent a technical team to the area to ensure stable communications link.

On May 26, a second China Mobile team was airlifted in to set up another station at Tangjiashan and two communications vehicles were dispatched to the area. On the night of May 27, three new base stations were set up at the earthquake relief and flood control headquarters in nearby Mianyang and Jiangyou cities and Santai County.

China Mobile had set the work in Mianyang as a priority, and had moved a switch box threatened by potential flooding to a safe area, according to Chen Yingwei, general manager of the Mianyang branch of China Mobile.

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