All reconstruction projects in southwest China's Sichuan Province, which was hard hit by a devastating earthquake in 2008, will be fully completed by September this year, Vice Governor Wei Hong said on Monday.

"As of now, a total of 27,564 post-quake reconstruction projects, out of the planned 29,692 projects, have been completed," Wei said, adding that 787.1 billion yuan (about $120 billion), or 91 percent of the total budget of 865.8 billion yuan, has been spent.

Wei said 85 percent of the post-disaster reconstruction projects had been finished as of the end of September 2010, realizing the country's plan to finish post-quake reconstruction in three years.

On May 12, 2008 an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck Wenchuan in Sichuan Province, leaving more than 80,000 people dead or missing.

(Xinhua News Agency April 18, 2011)