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New expressway to quake epicenter opens

A major power station in Yingxiu also resumed operation Tuesday. Three generating units at the Yingxiuwan power station would be able to turn out more than 700 million kwh of electricity annually with an installed capacity of 135,000 kw.

Workers do the last-minute cleaning inside of a tunnel on Yingxiu-Dujiangyan expressway that opened Tuesday. The expressway connects Yingxiu town and Dujiangyan city, both hard-hit by last year's massive earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan province. [CFP]
Workers do the last-minute cleaning inside of a tunnel on 
Yingxiu-Dujiangyan expressway that opened Tuesday. The 
expressway connects Yingxiu town and Dujiangyan city, 
both hard-hit by last year's massive earthquake in southwest 
China's Sichuan province. [CFP]

All three power stations under Yingxiu hydro power plant, including the Yingxiuwan power station, were destroyed in the quake.

Wang Youcai, head of the repair team from China's armed forces, which have frequently battled natural disasters, said they are working to put the other two stations back into use by May next year.

Reconstruction projects that began Tuesday also included new buildings of the Beichuan Middle School, one of the worst-hit schools, and a museum of the ethnic group Qiang in Maoxian county.

Reconstruction of a school at the epicenter - Yingxiu township primary school - started a day earlier, marking the beginning of post-quake rebuilding work at the small town razed to the ground in the disaster last year.

 

Editor:Liu Anqi

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