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China struggles to shelter 5 million homeless

AP, Chengdu
China said it was struggling to find shelter for many of the 5 million people whose homes were destroyed in last week's earthquake, while the confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to more than 40,000.
Meanwhile, rescuers pulled a 31-year-old man to safety, the second known case of someone being found alive a week after the May 12 earthquake. MaYuanjiang was saved from the debris of the Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant after a 30-hour rescue effort, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Ma was able to speak and began to eat small amounts of food, colleague Wu Geng told the agency. A miner was rescued after being trapped for 170 hours Monday, Xinhua said.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, raised the overall confirmed death toll to 40,075, most of those in Sichuan province. Officials have said the final number killed by
the quake is expected to surpass 50,000.
The government was setting up temporary housing for quake victims unable to find shelter with relatives, but there was a "desperate need for tents" to accommodate them, said Jiang Li, vice minister of civil affairs.
She told reporters in Beijing that nearly 280,000 tents had been shipped to the area and 700,000 more ordered, with factories working triple shifts to meet demand.
Another 480,000 quilts and 1.7 million jackets were also sent to quake survivors, Jiang said.
Five million people lost their homes in the quake, she said.
"Despite generous donations, the disaster is so great that victims still face a challenge in finding living accommodations," Jiang said.
China has said it would accept foreign medical teams, as the relief efforts shifted from searching for survivors to caring for the homeless. A growing number of coun- tries responded to the call, dispatching doctors to the quake area Tuesday.
A Russian medical team with a mobile hospital arrived TUcsday in the Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said. A 37-member medical team sent by the Taiwan Red Cross organisation also arrived in the disaster zone.
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a 23-member medical team will leave TUesday for China. Crews of doctors were also en route from Germany and Italy. Qin said.
"China is willing to work closely" with outside doctors, Qin told a news conference.
Other countries and groups have also offered to send medical teams, but China has not given permission to allow all of them to
"But given the situation, and difficulties in the area, including transportation and telecommunications, it is not possible for us to
accept all of the rescue and medical teams to engage in relief work," Qin
Rescue workers resumed the search for bodies on the second day of a three-day national mourning period declared by the Chinese government, an unprecedented gesture to honor the dead.
A crew of volunteers from Tangshan, the Chinese city that suffered the country's worst quake in 1976 that killed at least 240,000 people, arrived in the quake area.
"Now it's time for us to help the others that arc suffering," said Song Zhlxian, a farmer among a group of 15 older men wearing red hard hats and vests. "It is part of the Chinese virtue and spirit when one place suffers, then everyone else helps."
Because of plans to bury bodies quickly, the government said DNA samples will be taken from corpses to help with later identification, Xinhua said. Identified bodies will be cremated, although burial will be allowed where no cremation is possible.