Quake survivors have great expectations for stimulus funds

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-21 22:57

Just hoping for warmth

Retiree Zhang Junwen, 60, who is one of about 1,000 seniors living in the Happy Family housing compound, takes a shorter view. She just wants to stay warm this winter.

According to administrator Yang Zhongming, the compound is providing free electric blankets and hand warmers, and the electricity to run them, to residents. They won't have to help pay for the rebuilding of the grid.

"We have substantial resources from the stimulus package to expand and improve the grid to serve manufacturing, infrastructure construction and residential consumption," said Yang Zhengdong, the deputy director of State Grid's Dujiangyan Electric Power Supply Bureau.

The hotel where Gou spends the day cleaning used to have many tourists from Southeast Asia before the quake. Her manager, Xu Yuehua, who is also living in temporary accommodation, takes a broad view of the stimulus plan.

It will "benefit ordinary people in China, and imports of raw material for reconstruction and infrastructure building will also benefit the rest of the world."

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