The whole China shakes

[SPJ]

Since WWII,

There are military factories or industries in Si Chuan.

Nowadays, there are also airspace, nuclear facilities/factories.

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http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...811001,00.html

eventually, there will be monuments for the memory of the people loss in the quake.

most horrible for most people to take is about the schoolchildren.

overseas Chinese are raising money to help rebuild better and safer schoolhouses

Chinese launched a satellite to monitor quake signs.

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05...rthquake-zone/

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[SPJ]

1. Mao Mao panda found dead and buried in the rubbles, other missing pandas were all found in Wo Long.



2. NBA player Yao Ming donated 2 mil for rebuilding of school houses in Si Chuan.

wow, I only wish I have that much money--

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5829588.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDsXg...eature=related

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[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GIn0...eature=related

rescueing panda after the big quake.

one giant panda had to be anesthetized and carried to safety by 8 workers.

some baby panda were holding on the trunks and so afraid to come down, so the workers had to carry them down one by one.

some 80% of the pens were destroyed.

out of food supplies due to road blocked by the quake.

all panda's were eating rice potridge, till the arrival of fresh bamboo, apples etc.

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[GeneChing]

6/11-->6/15<--6/20

heavy Rains Trigger River Embankment Bursts In S China
2008-06-16 13:47:28

Beijing, June 16 -- A Section Of The Xijiang River Embankment In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Has Collapsed. Meanwhile, Neighboring Guangdong Province Is On High Alert Ahead Of A Flood Crest Converging From The Xijiang And Beijiang Rivers. Weeks Of Heavy Rains Have Triggered Flooding Across Southern And Eastern Parts Of China Claiming At Least 57 Lives.

High Water Levels Caused A 40-meter Section Of The Dayaochong Embankment In Changzhou Town Of Wuzhou City To Give Way.

The Water Then Beached A Temporary Dyke Being Built By Local Residents. The Flooding Forced The Evacuation Of More Than 3,000 People.

Meanwhile, Guangdong Province Is On Full Alert As Floods In The Swollen Rivers Of Xijiang And Beijiang Are Expected To Converge In Foshan City On Monday.

Flooded Houses Are Seen At Luzhai Town In Luzhai County, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 13, 2008. Flood Caused By Heavy Rains In The County Has Left Many Buildings Waterlogged.

Local Flood Control Officials Say Fourteen Monitoring Sites On The Two Rivers Have Recorded Water Levels Above Danger Lines.

Continuous Heavy Rains Triggered Landslides, Mud-rock Flows, Damaging Bridges And Cutting Roads.

Severe Rains And Floods In Eight Provinces And An Autonomous Region Have So Far Have Killed 57 People And Affected Nearly 18 Million Others. Over 1.2 Million People Have Been Evacuated.

860,000 Hectares Of Crops Have Been Damaged And Nearly 190,000 Homes Have Been Destroyed Or Damaged. The Direct Economic Loss Stands At Over 10 Billion Yuan.

The National Meteorological Center Forecasts More Rains In Southern China For The Next Few Days.

[SPJ]

Yes. It is just not a good year for everyone living in China.

At first, the rare snow storm in the south.

then some flood.

then the big quake.

then the flood.

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gas and food price soared sky high.

no gas to pump your car.

inflation--

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since China is big land, there are always nature disasters.

but there are just too many this year.

[SPJ]

Growing up in Taipei, Taiwan.

there were always earthquake and typhoon (tropical storm from the pacific).

and every few years, we would get the worse quake and typhoon.

in the winter, some times the cold front blew in from siberia, and mongolia.

but ususally just lasted a few days.

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[Drake]

I have heard that there's a lot of stuff going on in China in terms of economic opportunity. There's still a lot of poverty in the rural areas, though.

[SimonM]

I taught ESL in one of the rural areas. There is a lot of poverty. You can also find a place where society has largely remained as it was even in imperial times... just with more televisions.

But rural china is a place where:

- Peasants with barely enough food to keep their family sustained will produce a huge pot of bean and pumpkin soup and a basket of dates preserved in baijiu just to be good hosts to unexpected guests.

- Houses are still carved out of the sides of mountains overlooking terraced hills covered in fields of corn, castors and date trees.

- People still put babie's heads on hard pillows to flatten them, still paste red scrolls to their doors at spring festival for luck, still consult a fortune teller to schedule the date of weddings and adhere to a hundred other folk superstitions.

So rural china is neat.

And if you are in rural China, especially in the west and the north, the sky is wide and the emperor is far away.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-P_...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1C73Vt6yZQ

alan singing a song. She is a tibetan chinese from si chuan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZHxH-Kj-M8

Judy Ong and Jackie singing "praying"

a tune from a lullaby of takeda.

all the proceeds go to relief.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4VQ...eature=related

Jackie Chan said that he practices chinese boxing every day but not practicing singing too much.

such as hitting the sandbag and running etc.

may be sing along when running, too.

hint: being humble and comedian like.

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[Infrazael]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-P_...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1C73Vt6yZQ

alan singing a song. She is a tibetan chinese from si chuan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZHxH-Kj-M8

Judy Ong and Jackie singing "praying"

a tune from a lullaby of takeda.

all the proceeds go to relief.

I wish I have money to donate.

[SimonM]

There was another earth quake recently in Tibet.

Rated 6.6 on the richter scale.

At this time it's only got 30 confirmed casualties.

Last month there was a massive mudslide in Linfen triggered by heavy rains and an unsafe retaining wall at an unlicensed mine. The death count there was left at "unknown" after estimates of several hundred were discarded as inaccurate.

And, of course, there was the milk fiasco.

China's hard year continues.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGtfFSPNOM&feature=dir

pandas surviving the big quake.

[GeneChing]

Am I the first to post this? I'll move this to OT later.

Page last updated at 16:39 GMT, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:39 UK
UK aid effort starts after western China earthquake
Police say hundreds of survivors have been pulled from the rubble

British aid agencies have started to co-ordinate emergency help after a powerful earthquake hit western China.

Chinese officials said at least 400 people died and thousands were feared injured after the magnitude-6.9 quake in Yushu county, Qinghai province.

Cornwall-based disaster relief charity ShelterBox has mobilised one of its response teams in China to the area.

The British Red Cross said its Chinese counterparts were sending 500 tents and clothing and quilts for 1,000 people.

'Widespread destruction'

ShelterBox said it was working to assess the areas of greatest need following the tremor 800km (500 miles) south-west of the provincial capital Xining.

General manager Lasse Petersen said: "The local officials are already saying the biggest problem they're facing is lack of tents.

"The situation of several villages higher up in the mountains is still unknown, and roads and communications have been cut.

"Reports suggest there's widespread destruction and we are liaising with our personnel in China to assess the need."

The Red Cross said an assessment team from Qinghai province was in the region, and more charity workers from Beijing would join them on Wednesday.

Wyndham James, Save the Children's director in China, said the charity was contacting organisations in the region and liaising with the Chinese government.

"We will decide shortly with our partners what help we should give and whether we should send in a team to help," he said.

Buildings wrecked

ActionAid China's country director Keshav Gautam said: "In our experience of responding to earthquakes, most recently in Haiti but also in Sichuan in 2008, we know it will be vital to get medical supplies and essential items to Yushu county as fast as possible to help the survivors."

The Disasters Emergency Committee, an umbrella organisation of 13 British humanitarian charities, said it was monitoring the situation in China.

A spokesman said: "An emergency response co-ordinated by the Chinese government is already underway.

"The Chinese authorities have long experience of dealing with natural disasters and have not made an early call for international assistance."

Most of the buildings in the worst-hit town of Jiegu were wrecked, and landslides have cut off roads. Police said hundreds of survivors had been pulled from the rubble.

In 2008, a huge quake struck in neighbouring Sichuan province, about 800km from Yushu, which left 87,000 people dead or missing and five million homeless.

[uki]

many more are on the way, for everyone, in every nation.