Word: sichuan
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...rubble of the Sichuan earthquake, one particular horrific image piled upon another, until they nearly numbed a viewer: children buried in their collapsed schools, and many others orphaned. With my own first child due shortly, I found the sight of suffering children particularly trying. But another series of images also deeply affected me: that of grieving parents who, because of China's one-child policy, would have lost their only children...
...Since 1979, when Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders began worrying that overpopulation would lead to perpetual poverty, Chinese people have been prevented from having more than one child, though wealthy Chinese - not rural Sichuan dwellers - can sometimes pay large fines to be able to have two children while some find other ways around the restrictions. In the wake of the quake, Beijing says that couples whose only child was killed or disabled will be permitted to have another one. But the relaxation of the policy should extend far beyond the recent disaster...
...masses are doing even more. The China Youth Daily newspaper reported that some 200,000 people from all over China have descended on the quake zone, providing food, shelter and medical treatment, their convoys of vehicles sometimes causing traffic jams on the narrow mountain roads of Sichuan province. Private aid takes many forms: beef trucked in from Inner Mongolia, sleeping bags shipped from Shenzhen, building materials from Chongqing, millions of bottles of water and packets of instant noodles. Volunteers are working in areas overlooked by government relief efforts. In the village of Yongan, south of the devastated city of Beichuan...
Thousands are doing even more. The China Youth Daily reported that an estimated 200,000 citizen volunteers from all over China have descended on the quake zone, providing food, shelter and medical treatment, their convoys of vehicles sometimes causing traffic jams on the narrow mountains roads of Sichuan province. Private aid takes many forms--beef trucked from Inner Mongolia, sleeping bags shipped from Shenzhen, building materials from Chongqing, millions of bottles of water and packets of instant noodles. Volunteers are working in areas overlooked by government relief efforts. In the village of Yongan, south of the devastated city of Beichuan...
...week after the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province, Yingxiu is filled with signs of loss - but also of hope. This town of 10,000 was one of the hardest hit by the magnitude 7.9 temblor, and less than half of the population is believed to have survived...