Quake-hit seminary to rise again

BAILU, Sichuan: A 100-year-old Catholic seminary destroyed in the May 12 earthquake will be rebuilt on its original site in Sichuan province.

"Experts on ancient buildings from Beijing and Chengdu have started drawing up a reconstruction plan. Original building materials will be used as much as possible to restore the seminary," said an official from the Sichuan cultural relics protection bureau.

The Bailu Upper Academy, the first Catholic seminary in southwest China, was built in 1908 in Bailu Town, in Pengzhou, Sichuan. Most of the seminary was destroyed in the May 12 quake.