For Qingchuan, the focus is on resettlement

QINGCHUAN, Sichuan: Wang Mihe, his wife Yang Yuping and about 1,000 other farmers of Bayi village in Shiba township have been evacuated by the military to Yuanba in Guangyuan city, Sichuan province.

"We're happy to be resettled in Yuanba the quake has razed all the houses in Shiba where 7,000 people lived (and) cracks half a meter wide can be found in the fields. It's difficult for people to resume farming," the 60-year-old Wang says.

Resettlement of about 2,000 people from Qingchuan to Jianke county in Guangyuan, too, started yesterday. "They are the first batch of quake survivors to be relocated outside Qingchuan county, which is part of Guangyuan.