A Chinese government official on Tuesday said victory has been achieved in the rebuilding of areas worst hit by a devastating earthquake three years ago in southwest China\’s Sichuan Province.

Mu Hong, Vice Director of the country\’s National Development and Reform Commission, said 95 percent of the post-quake reconstruction projects have been completed so far.

Mu made the remarks during a press conference that detailed the reconstruction of the Sichuan quake zones three years after a 8.0-magnitude quake struck.

The devastating quake centered in Wenchuan County in southwestern Sichuan on May 12, 2008 left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and millions homeless.

The quake also impacted the neighboring Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in northwest China, where after three years of reconstruction, new schools and hospitals have been built and living conditions improved.

China\’s State Council, the Cabinet, in September 2008 made a general plan to rebuild the 51 quake-struck county-level regions in these three provinces. The size of the reconstruction areas totaled nearly 130,000 square kilometers.

Wei Hong, executive vice governor of Sichuan Province, where the quake caused the most destruction, said at the press conference that the province has completed 94 percent of the rebuilding, in which nearly 3,000 new schools and more than 1,000 hospitals have been built or reconstructed.

The reconstruction investment in Sichuan so far has reached 796.5 billion yuan. The fund has also helped renovate and reinforced 3.55 million rural and urban homes in just one year after the quake. In two years, reconstruction of 1.5 million rural homes and 250,000 homes in cities were finished.

In Gansu, reconstruction investment totalling 25.5 billion yuan has helped rebuild and renovate nearly 700,000 rural homes, and greatly improved the rural transportation with roads reconstructed.

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The Xinjiang division of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) disclosed on May 10 that it will invest 1.8 billion RMB in sand prevention and control projects around the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, in order to better resist sandstorm damage, contain desertification as well as to improve the quality and coverage of natural vegetation.

The Tarim Basin is located at the heart of Tianshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain and Altun Mountain. The basin, about 1,500 kilometers long from east west and 600 kilometers wide from north to south, covers 530,000 square kilometers. The centre of the basin is Taklamakan Desert, the world\’s second largest desert.

The basin is not only a major agricultural area and special produce production base but also rich in mineral resources. However, the basin\’s ecological environment is considerably fragile. In recent years, environmental protection has become a pivotal task to ensure the regional economy develops in a sustainable way.

Xinjiang NDRC approved the \”Sand Prevention and Control Project Plan Around the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang\” and agreed to implement the project starting this year. With a total of 1.7 billion yuan invested, the project will cover 625,300 hectares of the large area surrounding the Tarim Basin up to five years, including 42 counties in five provinces and four core cities.

The main tasks of the projects are: planting natural desert vegetation on the periphery of oases, planting shelter forests for wind-prevention and sand-fixation, building biological protection barriers within oases.

Xinjiang, whose desert is made up of 44.8 percent of Xinjiang in area and 43 percent of the whole country\’s desert area, is the biggest desertification province in China and even in the world. Aiming to protect Xinjiang ecological environment, boost the region’s economic and social development in a sustainable way, and help the poor overcome poverty, the implementation of the sand prevention and control is a greatly important strategy.

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\”No gunshots have been heard in the past five years and the illegal hunting has been largely restrained while new problems have came to us, which forced us to unite,\” he said.

Hunters began to hire native herdsmen to help hunt, which is much more separated and hidden from view, said Shira, director of Forest Public Security Bureau of Tibet Changtang Nature Reserve.

\”The area is too broad and barely populated, which brought great difficulties to us and many chances to hunters,\” Shira said.

No hunting had been discovered during patrolling in recent years, though small scale hunting might still exist. \”I dare not say that hunting has been terminated in the four reserves,\” he said.

\”Antelopes migrate across the four zones and so do the hunters, but we cannot execute the law across the board. Clues used to be cut off when hunters fled to another reserve,\” said Luo Yanhai, director of the Forest Public Security Bureau of Hoh Xil administration, who had been a patrolling team member for ten years.

A system of joint patrolling will be established according to the assignment. Except for patrolling, habitat protection, scientific research, information sharing and cross-zone manhunts will each be carried out annually. Information and work results will be reported to each other among the four reserve administrations every three months.

\”Information is the key problem, with which rescuing and manhunts can both be done quickly across the zones,\” Tseta said.

More than 100 cases of illegal hunting were uncovered since 1990 by China\’s forest police. All together, 17,000 remains of Tibetan antelope fur and 1,100 antelope cashmere have been found by police, while nearly 3,000 hunters have been apprehended and more than 300 guns have been confiscated.

The number of antelopes has again risen to 120,000 from 60,000 in Changtang reserve and it reached 70,000 from 20,000 in Hoh Xil reserve in the last decade.

Now the beautiful \”plateau dancers\” can be easily seen along the Qinghai-Tibet highway.

\”The joint patrolling will give us more power to protect the Tibetan antelopes. We will continue to protect the animals here with our lives just like Sonam Dargye,\” said Ngonga, head of the Suonandajie Protection Station.

\”The invisible fences of the four reserves will be cracked and we finally can travel through the zones just like the Tibetan antelopes,\” he said.

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There is a group of people who did not join in the disaster relief and reconstruction after the devastating Wenchuan Earthquake on May 12, 2008 but some of them were the first ones on the scene in quake-stricken areas, and they stood their posts day and night. They sent timely and correct information about the disaster to the world as well as brought regards from all over the world to people in disaster areas. They are reporters.

Wang Dan, a post-80s generation girl, is one of those reporters. Wang\’s first major report after she began to work as a journalist in the Huaxi Metropolis Newspaper was about the Wenchuan Earthquake.

Since then, Wang Dan has started to tap into emotions inside post-quake Beichuan County, the severely-afflicted area of Wenchuan Earthquake in southwest China\’s Sichuan Province. From the year 2009 to 2011, she spent three Spring Festivals in Beichuan with local people.

Wang said Beichuan has gone through great changes each year. In the past three years, she has stuck to her the post-quake reports, which shows her fortitude and strong sense of responsibility.

In January 2009, the first Spring Festival after Wenchuan Earthquake, Wang didn\’t spend the holiday with her family. She thought that those people who lost their relatives during the quake needed her comfort. She came to Beichuan and spent the festival with them.

In February, 2010, Wang also chose to spend the Spring Festival in Beichuan. This time, \”busy\” was the key word to describe the reconstruction of Beichuan. Wang said that she never saw so many tower cranes and such splendid working scenes.

In February, 2011, Wang took her family to drive to Beichuan for Spring Festival. She said she experienced a strong sense of renewal in Beichuan. Four new bridges spanned over the river, new buildings of Qiang Nationality went up like mushrooms and local residents had their new vehicles and new cars.

The local residents in Beichuan moved into new houses in new county town. Their life was full of happiness and hope. The sunshine during that Spring Festival seemed so warm, said Wang.

[i]By Ye Xin, People\’s Daily Online [/i]

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The debugging and testing of the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway has been nearly completed, and the railway will be put into experimental operation on May, 11, news spokesman of the Ministry of Railways Wang Yongping says. The testing period will last for a month, and it will be formally put into operation at the end of June.

Starting on June 1, the ticket sales of China\’s high speed trains will adopt a real-name booking system, Wang said. The Ministry of Railway is actively creating new methods of selling tickets, including phone-based ticket booking, bankcard-pay ticket booking, online ticket booking and implementation of the real-name system.

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Rescuers carry the body of a landslide victim in the village of Luojiang, south China\’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 10, 2011. The death toll rose to 7 as of 3 p.m. on Tuesday while 15 quarry workers remained missing after a landslide roared down rain-saturated hills and engulfed a makeshift dormitory in Luojiang at 1:30 p.m. on Monday. One survived the disaster. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

Death toll from the quarry landslide rose to 14 after another three bodies were found late Tuesday while the other eight are still missing in the rubble in in south China.

Rescuers combing through the rubble said they have found no evidence that the quarry\’s eight missing workers, who are believed to be buried 10 meters deep in the rubble, are still alive.

The bodies of 14 workers have been recovered since the landslide hit the quarry at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the village of Luojiang, Xianshui Township near Guilin City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. One survivor died on the way to the hospital.

The rescuers, using specialized equipment to try and detect traces of life in the rubble, have found no traces of survivors, said Tang Chaobin, deputy head of Quanzhou County, where the quarry is located.

Tang said the search will not stop until all missing workers are located.

\”The government will spare no effort in finding them,\” said Tang

Rocks and mud surged down rain-soaked hills on Monday afternoon, burying workers resting in a makeshift dormitory. The area received large amount of rain in the days preceding the incident.

Tang said rocks rolled down from a hillside and hit the quarry\’s dormitory with great force. \”Workers are buried ten meters under the surface. It is very difficult to rescue them,\” he said.

\”We first saw smoke rising up in the valley, then the rocks and mud gushing out. The dormitory was soon buried underneath,\” said Chen Yuanliang, a villager who witnessed the landslide.

He Qishi, deputy chief engineer of the region\’s general geological environment monitoring station, said the landslide was caused by days of continuous, heavy rainfall. He said the landslide buried an area equivalent in size to two basketball fields, with a volume of 250,000-300,000 cubic meters and a thickness of about five meters.

Local officials say about 1,000 geological disasters occur in Guangxi every year.

Rainstorms wreaked havoc in the region last weekend, with many roads and other areas rendered inaccessible due to flooding. Authorities have issued warnings about potential geological disasters, as the local weather forecast bureau says that the rain is expected to continue for the next three days.

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Chinese authorities mobilized nearly 15,000 people to conduct more than 2,200 law-enforcement operations involved in a nationwide crackdown on illegal surveying and mapping last year, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said Tuesday.

The crackdown conducted by surveying and mapping authorities across the country has improved order in the market for geographic information and effectively safeguarded national security and interests, the bureau said in a statement.

The bureau also listed ten major cases of illegal surveying and mapping last year.

One case involved a Japanese national who was caught surveying and mapping without Chinese government approval, an act which is against Chinese law, in northwest China\’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from Jan. 31 to Feb. 18 in 2010.

The Japanese national used a GPS receiver to collect information on 598 geographic coordinates in the name of sightseeing and conducting environmental inspection. Of these coordinates, 588 were within Xinjiang, including 85 within the Tacheng Military Zone, according to the statement.

Local authorities fined the Japanese national and confiscated relevant surveying devices and results.

The other nine major cases mostly involved local companies or institutions publicizing maps without government approval, destroying survey marks, or conducting surveying and mapping without sound qualifications.

The bureau said in the statement that the central government will continue to crack down on illegal surveying and mapping and speed up the development of supportive policies to boost the market.

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Rescuers carry the body of a landslide victim in the village of Luojiang, south China\’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 10, 2011. The death toll rose to 7 as of 3 p.m. on Tuesday while 15 quarry workers remained missing after a landslide roared down rain-saturated hills and engulfed a makeshift dormitory in Luojiang at 1:30 p.m. on Monday. One survived the disaster. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

Rescuers combing through the rubble of a landslide-hit quarry in south China on Tuesday said they have found no evidence that ten missing workers are still alive.

Eleven bodies were recovered in the 24 hours after the landslide hit the quarry in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday afternoon. One survivor died on the way to the hospital.

Armed with eight excavators and sniffer dogs, rescuers recovered seven bodies on Tuesday. Life detectors showed that the rubble contains no traces of life, said Tang Chaobin, deputy head of Quanzhou County, where the quarry is located.

Tang said the excavation will not stop until all missing workers are located.

\”The government will spare no efforts in finding them to give the victims\’ families word,\” said Tang

Following days of heavy rains, rocks and mud surged down rain-soaked hills on Monday afternoon, burying workers resting in a makeshift dormitory.

According to He Qishi, deputy chief engineer of the region\’s general geological environment monitoring station, the landslide was caused by days of continuous heavy rainfalls and buried an area equivalent to two basketball fields, with a volume of 250,000-300,000 cubic meters and a thickness of about five meters.

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Police in northeast China have arrested two farmers for lighting cigarettes in the wild, causing a widespread forest fire that took 5,000 firemen a full day to put out, local officials said Tuesday.

Authorities said they are still calculating the damage caused by the fire that started last Thursday morning in the rural county of Jiayin, near the forest-surrounded city of Yichu.

About 5,000 firemen worked overnight and extinguished the fire the following day. There has been no report of casualties.

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A water storage fell down and hit a factory late Tuesday, leaving five dead, one trapped and two injured in central China\’s Henan Province, local authorities said.

The factory collapsed after being hit by the storage at 6 p.m. in Jiyuan City in Henan, a city government official said.

Rescuers are still searching for the trapped person in the rubble.

Investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.

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