‘Pray for the disaster victims, god bless China’ has been the main motif on many main Chinese blogging websites as the country moves past the hundredth hour of mourning, fund-raising and blood donations. The call for prayer has been the theme of coverage at new media and blog service provider Netease, which has also created a map mashup wherein users in Wenchuan can report in live time what's happening in their area. Blog service and news provider Tencent, like many of its peers, has set up a number of different pages allowing users to express their support and shared experiences. has just released its first 2008 beta version of the company's hugely popular instant messaging client with a disaster relief theme, QQ Prayer; downloading it allows the user to send candles and yellow ribbons to display their support and compassion to earthquake victims. As with all internet companies, QQ has set up a donations page which has already seen users sending in over 13 million RMB, as well as a channel to report fund-raising scams. QQ has continued aggregating user-shot video clips from around the earthquake disaster scene which now number in the hundreds, as well as having set up a chart showing the latest figures and updates from the relief mission, including a missing person's bulletin board which can be seen further down. Sina.com has gone for a green ribbon campaign, and is also calling on users of its blogging services to pray for those lost and yet to be unburied, as well as compiling official CCTV footage along with user-shot video. Sohu.com's main Earthquake page is also featuring clips from the few media allowed to report from the disaster zone as well as those uploaded by users, with the emphasis on the latter. As with most blog portal websites, details on how to donate to Chinese Red Cross are being given prominence. Chinese search engine leader Baidu has turned its Earthquake page into a sort of operations center for all the different online and offline relief initiatives it has underway, with calls to action aimed at users also being seen on smaller blogging sites such as Blogbus, BlogCN and Xici Hutong, among many others. Cat898 has put most of its front page toward discussion of the earthquake, and features a photo set of the men working on the relief mission front line. And the blog portal at China.com, while featuring what appears to be one user's photos of the devastation hundreds of thousands are experiencing, is also now highlighting one post which proposes that people allocate 1% of their monthly income toward the relief campaign: 每人月工资的1%,对每个人来说不算什么,但是对于灾区的人民可是救命钱呀。相信我们的民族一定能够在危难中崛起。 借用一句广告词 有我,中国强 The overwhelming reponse to the proposal has been that people have already donated far more than 1% of their monthly salaries. The third comment on the proposal reads: 这次灾难中最大的灾难就是留下了数以万计孤儿!!!此时他们还在和其他的灾民一样接 受着救济,可日后的日子恐怕难以想象.时间长了我们的政府还会一如既往的想着他们吗? 即使想着他们无非也是逢年缝节的象征性的救济一下,况且专项救济资金不一定都能按期而 至!各个部门截留挪用之例每每发生,真正落到实处也是杯水车薪啊!因此我在此强烈呼吁 或建议!!!政府能不能即刻制定一政策:让全国有爱心的人民来领养!!当务之急是政府 出台相关的户籍政策和配套政策.如全部免去12年的一切义务教育学杂费...等等!这 样就可以使领养者少去许多人为的麻烦,特别是户籍!!! Anti-CNN.com has also set up a new ‘Earthquake Status’ section, the top thread in which at present is a response to those making the argument online that corruption led to poorly-constructed school buildings in the Wenchuan area, which is why so many schools collapsed while government buildings remained standing: ‘Those saying that the government buildings are still in good condition can just shut their mouths’ Pioneering web 2.0 site Douban has also been at the forefront with aggregation pages like Help Wenchuan gaining thousands of users quickly; other groups set up include: [Earthquake] How netizens have used Fanfou and Wikipedia to file real-time reports Why the country is not accepting foreign assistance for now Anti-poverty funds: ways to donate and know where your donation is going There have also been prayer groups, more tips on how to donate wisely, a group to publicize new access points into cut-off Wenchuan as they are discovered, discussions over whether the torch relay ought to be put on hold, and even a group just to discuss initial photos that came out of the disaster areas. Groups set up by religious intellectuals like Wang Yi have seen numerous discussions taking place. Some Douban groups have been deleted, but others have been set up to host discussions that were deleted off other sites. Then there's Douban's moving special earthquake page, where it turns out actually dozens of earthquake groups have been set up, each with their own avatars and many with hundreds of members. Douban was actually one of the first to set up a space to help users find their missing loved ones.
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China: Time to pray
2026-11-15 02:58:48 · Cedar Herald Index
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