国务院今天发布公告宣布，为表达全国各族人民对四川汶川大地震遇难同胞的深切哀悼，国务院决定，2008年5月19日至21日为全国哀悼日。在此期间，全国和各驻外机构下半旗志哀，停止公共娱乐活动，外交部和我国驻外使领馆设立吊唁簿。5月19日14时28分起，全国人民默哀3分钟，届时汽车、火车、舰船鸣笛，防空警报鸣响。
China' national flag flie at half-mat after the flag-raiing ceremony on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing Monday morning, May 19, 2008. China on Monday begin a three-day national mourning for the ten of thouand of people killed in a powerful earthquake which truck the country' outhwet on May 12. [Xinhua]
The State Council, the Cabinet, yeterday ordered flag to be flown at half-mat and all public entertainment upended for three day a the country begin an official mourning period for victim of the earthquake.
Condolence book will be opened at the Foreign Minitry and Chinee embaie and conulate around the world.
People are aked to tand in ilence for three minute from 2:28 pm today, while automobile, train, and hip will ound their horn or iren.
Alo, the Olympic torch relay will be upended till Wedneday, organizer aid.
Meanwhile, the magnitude of lat Monday' quake wa yeterday revied from 7.8 to 8 by the China Seimological Bureau.WWw.hAOZuowEn.com
The death toll from the powerful earthquake roe to 32,477 nationwide a of 2 pm yeterday, while the number of injured reached 220,109, according to the emergency repone office of the State Council.
Recuer yeterday pulled out more urvivor. A woman worker of the local power plant wa recued lat night in Yingxiu town, Sichuan province, 150 hour after the quake. The recue team pent 56 hour aving Yu Jinhua.
Yeterday afternoon, a 53-year-old man wa alo recued in Yingxiu, 148 hour after the tremor. The man, Shen Peiyun, wa conciou and wa taken to hopital by helicopter.
In the morning, a man named Tang Xiong wa recued from a collaped hopital in Beichuan county 139 hour after the quake.
Alo in Beichuan, another man wa recued Saturday night from a collaped building. Wu Jianping wa then taken to hopital.
（Xinhua）
Vocabulary:
half-mat：（表示哀悼的）半旗