China
Vice Premier urges safe winter for quake-hit residents
Source: Xinhua | 10-29-2008 08:55
Special Report: Post-quake reconstructionCHENGDU, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang urged authorities of southwestern Sichuan Province to ensure the May 12 quake affected residents live through the coming winter safely and speed up reconstruction work.
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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R front), member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, visits a local family at their newly-built house in Yingxiu Town, the May 12 quake epicenter in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 26, 2008. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang visited the May 12 quake-hit area in Sichuan recently to see the progress of the post-quake reconstruction and console the survivors.(Xinhua Photo) |
Li visited farmers' houses, temporary hospitals, enterprises and construction sites in the province from Saturday to Monday.
The construction of permanent houses meeting quality and quake-resistant standards should be accelerated to make more residents live in new homes as early as possible, said the vice premier when visiting a farmer's newly completed house in Wenchuan, the epicenter of the 8.0 magnitude quake which left more than 80,000 people dead or missing.