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China Marks First Anniversary of Deadly Earthquake
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by Rob Walker | May 12, 2009 at 05:33 am
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China is remembering the victims of the May 12, 2008 earthquake in the southwestern Sichuan province. Ceremonies took place across a number of locations in China on Tuesday, including Yingxiu, a town near the epicenter of the earthquake. At least 80,000 people were reported killed or missing after the quake.
Parents of children who were lost during the quake are demanding answers from the government over allegations of shoddy school building construction, which is why so many of the victims were children.
Following a silent tribute to the tens of thousands of victims, Chinese President Hu Jintao said the disaster brought the country together.
Hu praised the leadership of the Communist Party, the central government and the Central Military Commission, for getting the party, the military and the people to work together.
He says China's response to the earthquake included the fastest rescue and largest-scale mobilization in the country's history.
To commemorate the event, China has made May 12 "Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day." The official Xinhua News Agency says disaster relief drills were held nationwide.
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at 06:01 on May 12th, 2009
The rescue efforts where a success, however the causalities where enormous and the rebuilding will take at least a decade.
The worth part though is that it may not have been as bad was it not for the Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese:长江三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 長江三峽大壩;pinyin: Chángjiāng Sānxiá Dàbà) is ahydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬/洋子; pinyin: Yángzǐ) inSandouping, Yichang, Hubei, China. It is thelargest hydroelectric power station in the world.
Wish was build to reduce air pollution by generating clean power.