The relief supplies, which will be carried to Kaohsiung, are stored at the Beijing Capital International Airport, China, on Aug. 18, 2009. [Xinhua]

The Chinese mainland sent the second batch of disaster relief materials to typhoon Morakot-battered Taiwan by air Tuesday.

The materials include more than 10,000 sleeping bags, 10,000 blankets and 1,000 sterilizers, said Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at the Beijing Capital International Airport.

The relief supplies will be carried by a special plane directly from the airport to Kaohsiung.

Wang Yi also expressed his deep sympathy to the Taiwanese on their losses in the worst typhoon disaster to hit the island in the past 50 years.

He said the mainland government would try all out to provide the relief Taiwan people needed now and for future reconstruction work.

Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, expresses his condolence on Taiwan people's loss during a start sending ceremony at the Beijing Capital International Airport, China, on Aug. 18, 2009.  [Xinhua]

"The mainlanders care a lot about the situation of their compatriots," Wang said.

He said the Taiwan Work Office and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) had conveyed their concern for the island immediately after the disaster, and called for the swift provision of aid from across the nation.

After reviewing a list of required aid materials the island put forward, the mainland had tried to gather them together quickly and prepared to provide emergency help for the island.

Chinese mainland's second batch of disaster relief materials arrive in Taiwan on August 18, 2009. [Xinhua]

On Monday, 100 prefabricated houses was flown from southeast Shenzhen city to Kaohsiung, the first of 1,000. The remaining houses will be constructed as quickly as possible.

According to the latest statistics from Taiwan's disaster relief center, the Morakot death toll had reached 127 by 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, with 45 injured and 307 missing.