Beichuan Middle School was destroyed in last year’s Sichuan earthquake. Officials are reticent to give final numbers of students who died while attending the school, but they do offer figures for the number of students currently attending school at a temporary location in Mianyang today. That figure of 3000 students encompasses survivors from seven different [...]
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Sichuan: The faces and landscape one year after the earthquake
May 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Rubble and dust - One year after the Sichuan earthquake
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, Uncategorized
What has left the biggest impression on me after these five days of visiting some of the earthquake hit areas of Sichuan, is the resilience of the people who experienced death and devastation on such a grand scale. One farmer I spoke to, Zhao Rude, was energetic and sprightly for a seventy year-old as he [...]
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