On May 13th, the second day after the earthquake in Sichuan, the Italian Disaster Image Processing Center, being the first foreign organization to contact the MOST, provided the satellite pictures of the Dujiangyan city taken by the Italian Space Agency with their Mediterranean satellite group and the atlas with detailed information about the earthquake conditions processed and produced by the Center. The Center also indicated that it would help the Chinese government relieve the earthquake disaster.

The MOST expressed gratitude to the Italian Disaster Image Processing Center for their help and the intention to strengthen the cooperation in prevention and reduction of disaster in the future.