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Life rebuilt from ruins: 5 years after Wenchuan earthquake (7)

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

The street view of Mianyang city in Sichuan on May 2, 2013, five years after the earthquake. (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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