All 132 people - 123 passengers and nine crew members - on board a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday died, a senior official with China's Civil Aviation Authority said on Saturday evening, China Daily reported.

Despite intensive search and rescue operations since Monday, no signs of life have been found at the crash site, deputy head of China's Civil Aviation Administration, said at a press conference in Wuzhou.

Hu said that search and rescue teams will continue to search for the victims, their remains, belongings and aircraft wreckage to show respect for life and responsibility to the families of the victims. In addition, the finds at the crash site are key to the investigation of the tragedy.

China Eastern flight MU5735 took off from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, at 13:11 local time on Monday. According to the schedule, he was supposed to arrive in Guangzhou at 15:05. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft over Wuzhou at 14:21.