Post-quake Yingxiu on long road towards fully recovery

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Source: CCTV.com | 12-24-2008 13:54

Seven months ago, China suffered its worst earthquake in a generation. Nearly 70,000 people died in the Wenchuan quake and 20,000 have never been accounted for.

Seven months on, what was once a prospering town in the  upper reaches of the Minjiang River, still looks like a  battlefield. It lost nearly 6,000 people, about a third of  its population. Most are buried on this hill.

In our first episode of Revisiting Wenchuan, Han Bin goes back to Yingxiu, one of the worst-hit towns. As he finds out, reconstruction is on the way, yet psychological recovery is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Going back to Yingxiu, the epicenter of the Wenchuan earthquake.

Seven months on, what was once a prospering town in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, still looks like a battlefield. It lost nearly 6,000 people, about a third of its population. Most are buried on this hill.

Chen Guoping came here to remember his sister Chen Guoqun and her husband Wu Tao. He was told their bodies were buried on the mountain, but it's impossible to know exactly where.

Chen Guoping, farmer of Mianchi, Wenchuan County, said, "There is no way to find them, but they know I miss them. "