Wang Guoshe, head of Guangdong fire department, said locating the tops of buried buildings was the main task now, so that signs of life could be found more accurately.
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Rescuers at the site of the Shenzhen landslide have pulled out the first body from the rubble.
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Rescue personnel and lighting facilities have been dispatched to the accident site successively to ensure continuous rescue work.
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Workers at the site said the soil swept down from a height of 150 metres to the industrial parks, leaving over 100,000 square metres of debris with a depth of up to 10 metres.
Heavy machinery was raking through the thousands of tonnes of soil and rubble that buried factories and residential buildings in China’s second high-profile industrial disaster in four months.
Destroyed buildings… the landslide hit an industrial park in Shenzhen.
“At one point the running mud was only ten meters away from me”, Peng told the official Xinhua news agency.
Shenzhen media has warned that the city was running out of space to store construction waste, especially as the city works on an ambitious subway construction scheme.
Besides new buildings, a network of subway lines is being built, and large volumes of earth are being excavated and dumped at waste sites.
Once a sleepy fishing village on the Communist side of a Cold War frontier, Shenzhen was chosen by Beijing three decades ago to help pioneer economic reforms, and it has boomed ever since.
Rescuers stand near damaged buildings as they search for potential survivors following a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. The massive landslide engulfed 33 buildings in an industrial district on Sunday.
Media said no foreign companies were believed to have been affected.
About 900 people were evacuated on Sunday as waves of soil and debris rolled across the district and sparked an explosion at a natural gas pipeline.
Before he was pulled out, Tian had been given oxygen and received intravenous infusion, Zhang said.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, set up an investigation team to look into the landslide Wednesday morning, the news agency reported.
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Meanwhile, the confirmed death toll ticked up to two, with a so-far unidentified body being recovered, the local website Shenzhen News said, showing a photo of rescue workers with heads bowed in a moment of silence.
