Premier Li Keqiang discussed the situation with various officials on the plane to the scene of the ship accident.
He gave 9 instructions and requested that all those involved should give priority to saving any survivors.
A passenger ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), carrying 458 people sank at around 9:28 p.m. of June 1 in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze River, according to Hubei provincial government emergency office.