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Life rebuilt from ruins: 5 years after Wenchuan earthquake (9)

People's Daily Online)  13:46, May 10, 2013  

Photo taken on May 2, 2013 shows the residential and commercial area in the new Beichuan county. The new Biechuan county was rebuilt on a rape field and became the youngest county in China. (Photo/CFP)

Edited and translated by Huang Jin, People's Daily Online

An 8.0 Richter scale earthquake hit Wenchuan and Beichuan counties in Sichuan on May 12, 2008. The earthquake killed 69,227 people, injured 374,643, and caused 17,923 people missing. It was the most destructive quake since the founding of New China, known as the Wenchuan Earthquake.

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(Editor:HuangJin、Gao Yinan)

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