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Reconstruction in quake-hit Sichuan nearly finished

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-03-08 20:28

BEIJING - Reconstruction in Southwest China's Sichuan province, which had been hit by a devastating earthquake nearly three years ago, has "basically" finished, Vice Governor Huang Xiaoxiang said Tuesday.

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Post-disaster reconstruction had been planned to take three years, but 92.3 percent of the national restoration and reconstruction projects had been completed by the end of 2010, Huang said.

On May 12, 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake struck Wenchuan in Sichuan province, leaving more than 80,000 people dead or missing.

"The quake-hit area will pose a fresh outlook three years after the earthquake," the official said.