At 8:02 on April 20, 2013, 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in Lushan town, Ya'an in Sichuan Province, causing large casualties and property losses. People from around the country showed their love by donation once the earthquake happened. Linde FLT responded quickly to emergency logistics preparation for this disaster, transported goods and materials to Ya’an.
 
When the earthquake happened, all employees from Linde FLT Chengdu Branch were in hospital for medical examination. At first time, the engineers immediately contacted the Shuangliu Emergency Logistics Reserve Center, and leave to join the emergency logistics operations at 10:00am in the morning. Since the Wenchuan earthquake, aiming at minimum the damage, to rescue the lives and property in the disaster areas and to help resume production and rebuild homes as soon as possible, the government increased the intensity of the emergency reserve. Therefore, after the Ya'an earthquake, the Shuangliu Emergency Logistics Reserve Center was launched at the first time, so far, the reserve center has been equipped with large storage capacity of emergency supplies and dozens of Linde Very Narrow Aisle three-way stacker and other electric balanced forklift trucks, ensured the efficient shipment of the goods and materials. 
 
In the meantime, Linde FLT nationwide service network also actively contacted customers that were using Linde FLT forklift truck as well as all the reserve centers to ensure the work of the forklift while offered Linde FLT forklift service for 24 hours a day support. Beijing GLD　Oil Research Institute, Beijing Bureau of Civil Affairs, the Red Cross Society of Beijing and Tianjin General Logistics Department Army were also using the Linde forklift respectively, actively involved in the handling of goods and materials. 
 
Currently, the huge number of goods and materials made the material handling pretty busy, as Linde (China) has a huge number of FLT drivers in User Club, if necessary, Linde will fully deploy more Linde forklifts and staffs to provide assistance nationwide. For now, Linde FLT employees also actively donate and contact local agencies, hoping to devote into the reconstruction work in the future.