Wen visited a makeshift shelter in Zhouqu No. 1 middle school accommodating over 700 people, the barrier lake and Bailong river, as well as two hardest-hit villages where a large number of residents and buildings had been buried.
A massive rain-triggered mudslide hit Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu Province on Aug. 8, causing at least 1,435 deaths and 330 were still missing.