Swift rescue urged after landslide in Chongqing

President Xi Jinping on Friday urged efforts to carry out search and rescue operations in a scientific manner after a deadly landslide struck a county in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, killing eight people.

The collapse occurred at around 9:10 am on Friday in Hanjia subdistrict of Pengshui county, leaving people trapped and missing. By press time, 34 people remained missing.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attached great importance to the disaster and made important instructions.