Woman uses her 73-hour ordeal to encourage other survivors

MIANYANG, Sichuan: Wang Xinghua, 44, told herself she only had two choices: wait for the rescue team or die, during the 73 hours she lay buried under the collapsed national taxation bureau. Today, she is back at work in a temporary office.

Wang, a Beichuan resident, had been working at the bureau for 26 years. Of 38 staff members only 27 survived the quake.

The government of Beichuan moved to Anchang Township on May 22, and the national taxation bureau also restarted work that day.