Soldiers load relief materials at Lukou International Airport in Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu province, April 27, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

Death toll nears 4,400

The team, taking with it six sniffer dogs and equipment needed for rescue efforts, also brought some emergency relief materials for the country, including tents, blankets and power generators.

The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to 4,352 people, including 20 mountaineers, and more than 7,953 others have been injured, said the National Emergency Operation Center of Nepal's Home Ministry on Tuesday morning.

More than 400,000 houses have been destroyed or damaged by the earthquake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks, including a 6.7-magnitude quake on Sunday afternoon, affecting more than 6.6 million people, according to the emergency operation center.

China has offered to provide Nepal with emergency aid worth 20 million yuan (about $3.4 million), and the first batch of relief materials were already on the way, transporting from Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, to the Himalayan country by chartered planes.