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Life rebuilt from ruins: 5 years after Wenchuan earthquake (2)

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

Yang Zhengjie (bridegroom) and Yang Li get married in new Beichuan county in Mianyang of Sichuan province on April 15, 2013. The wedding was previously fixed at the end of 2008. But the earthquake destroyed their home. Finally they rebuilt the home and got married five years later.  (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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