Experts offer advice on quake rebuilding
Two months after an earthquake ravaged much of Sichuan province, workers are diligently salvaging bricks to restore a 6th century Taoist temple damaged in the disaster.
As China begins to look beyond emergency response toward long-term reconstruction, experts on post-disaster planning warn that expectations should be realistic since rebuilding will take years.
"I saw them cleaning the bricks one by one," said Robert Olshansky, an urban planner at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who has studied post-disaster reconstruction.
"You keep doing that, in a couple of years, you'll be done," he said, before cautioning, "Be patient. It takes a long time."
Olshansky was among two dozen international experts who came to Sichuan this week to assess the damage from the 7.9-magnitude quake, which claimed nearly 70,000 lives and left 5 million homeless.
It is the first visit by such a large gathering of urban planners and disaster recovery experts to the quake zone, where many mountains were raked clean, towns collapsed into heaps of rubble and shoddily constructed schools were flattened.
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Posted By: plumblossom @ 06/10/2008 5:31:28 AM
Comment: I believe the Chinese will put through this disaster as we have done in all previous disasters. Chinese are a resilient and tough.
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