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A month ago today at 2:28 pm, the Wenchuan earthquake started to rip apart villages, towns and cities in Sichuan, the land of abundance, leisure and natural splendor, causing a tremendous loss of lives as well as pain and agony throughout the country.

Since then, several of my colleagues, with the youngest who joined the paper just six months ago and the oldest in his mid-50s, have worked in the epicenter areas to report on the great tragedy, the massive rescue and relief work.

I envy them as they have covered the most devastating natural disaster since New China's founding with an openness, promptness and courage that has been unprecedented in modern Chinese journalism.