XINING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two-and-a-half years of reconstruction work has been wrapped up in northwest China's quake-hit Yushu Prefecture, just as winter ushers in blizzards and hailstorms.
Tsering Dekyi, a Tibetan nurse, shed tears as she said goodbye to a temporary hospital made of prefabricated plank houses.
She worked there for more than 900 days after the devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake left 2,698 dead and over 12,000 injured in April 2010.
Doctors and nurses moved into the new People's Hospital of Yushu Prefecture, the largest of its kind in post-quake Yushu, this week.
The hospital is equipped with sophisticated medical equipment and operating rooms that enable cardiac, organ transplant and brain surgeries, according to Wang Qinhu, the leader of the reconstruction project.
"It is a very high-tech hospital on par with those in many developed regions," Wang said.
Yushu is an isolated region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Wen Guodong, deputy Party chief of the prefecture, said the government made improving people's livelihood a primary concern in the post-quake reconstruction work.
He said construction of around 39,000 houses for rural and urban residents, and another 8,000 for monks, had been completed by the end of October, with a total investment of 9.7 billion yuan (1.5 billion U.S. dollars).
Residents in Gyegu, the town most devastated by the quake, are moving into their new homes.
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