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Quake survivors move into new houses
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Source: CCTV.com | 01-23-2009 08:27
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Eight months after the Sichuan earthquake and the first batch of permanent housing is ready for survivors in four of the hardest-hit areas. Some of the people who lost their homes in the disaster will move into their new homes before the New Year holiday.
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| A woman serves with big smile on her face during a banquet to celebrate moving into new house in Dongjiaxinyuanzi town of Dujiangyan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2009. As their homestead was destroyed in the earthquake in May 2008, about 400 families in Dongjiaxinyuanzi town moved to new houses on Jan. 22.(Xinhua/Wang Jianhua) |
90 percent of the houses in Dujiangyan's Qipan village, collapsed during last year's earthquake.
Eight months have passed, and more than 800 families have moved to their new permanent houses before the Spring Festival with government help.
Villager Dong Zhongru said, "I've got a 175-square-meter house. There are 5 people in my family."
