Special Supplement: Chengdu shakes off earthquake

Although it is nearly three months since the devastating May 12 earthquake, some residents outside Sichuan province who call their friends in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, ask if there are still aftershocks and end the conversation saying "you have led a hard life".

Deng Gongli, chief of the city's tourism administration, recalls the time he phoned the chief of the Harbin tourism administration in northeast China's Heilongjiang province about a month after the magnitude-8 quake.

Deng asked the Harbin chief, who is his friend, to organize tour groups to visit the city to help its tourism sector.