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A bright future built from the ruins

When the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake struck Bailu township in 2008, Yang Qingping, a 35-year-old farmer, was sitting on a chair in the street and chatting with his neighbors. It was a common sight at lunch time in the town.

Man who lost his son to become a father again

Yang Qinggui lost his 19-year old son in the deadly magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake that struck Southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, 2008.

Zheng Daoxiang: life's definitely getting better after the quake

Before October 2009, when Wugui village in Sichuan province was still a messy neighborhood. it never occurred to Zheng Daoxiang that one day he would be relaxing on a sofa in a two-story house,

Grandpa Huang moves into villa in hopes to open a countryside hotel

Grandpa Huang has been living quite a different life than he was living before the devastating Wenchuan Earthquake shook his hometown Bailu town. 

Grocery store owner thrives after quake

Two things came unexpectedly to He Shengcai following the devastating Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008. The owner of a grocery store in Bailu town in Pengzhou in southwestern China’s Sichuan province saw his profits grow after the earthquake, and he had a chance to learn French in his late fifties.

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