China’s confirmed death toll is 41,353 as of May 21, 2008. After last week’s massive earthquake, more than 32,000 remain missing. Officials expect the final death toll to exceed 50,000.

A survivor searches for his relatives amid the ruins of a collapsed house where he once lived, in earthquake-hit Beichuan, Sichuan province May 19, 2008. Picture taken May 19, 2008.        REUTERS/China Daily

A worker arranges urns filled with the remains of earthquake victims at a crematorium in Suining, Sichuan province May 21, 2008.           REUTERS/Stringer

Survivors watch rescuers clear the debris of collapsed buildings in Renhe village in the earthquake-hit area of Shifang, Sichuan province, May 21, 2008.         REUTERS/Aly Song

A survivor arranges her belongings collected from her collapsed house in Renhe village in the earthquake-hit area of Shifang, Sichuan province, May 21, 2008.     REUTERS/Aly Song