Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, arrived in the quake-hit Mianyang city in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sunday to oversee disaster relief work.

Li, also the vice head of a disaster relief headquarters led by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, arrived in Mianyang city at 12:29 p.m.

At 1:50 p.m., Li arrived at the Pingtong Township of Mianyang's Pingwu County to direct local quake relief, rescue operations and plague prevention work.

(Xinhua News Agency May 18, 2008)