As in making decisions for the mobilization of earthquake disaster relief, some special issues, such as uncertainty
demands from affected areas, multiple types of relief commodities and the quick response requirement, must be concerned
carefully and synthetically. According to the situation that the main earthquake faults of China mostly locate in mountain
areas, a stochastic mixed integer model is proposed to determine the facility locations of temporary distribution centres,
the initial inventory levels at these established facilities, the deployment plan of helicopters and the overall transportation
plans from established facilities to affected areas. Furthermore, an efficient heuristic algorithm is also developed according
to the special structure of the proposed model. The computational results of a numerical example constructed from the
scenarios of the Great Wenchuan Earthquake show that the model can provide valuable decision support on the mobilization
of post-earthquake relief, and the proposed algorithm also has high efficiency in the computation.