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UPDATED: August 18, 2008 No.34 AUG.21, 2008
Hope in New Homes
 
 
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Displaced child quake victims play outside a community of prefabs in Dujiangyan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Three months after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Sichuan, the government said on August 12 that it had fulfilled a commitment to move all 10 million displaced people, from more than 4.45 million households, into makeshift houses.

So far, some 978,000 urban households have moved into temporary prefab houses in 3,400 government-funded resettlement quarters.

Most of the 3.48 million rural families rebuilt their own homes with government subsidies of 2,000 yuan ($285) per household.

The death toll from the May 12 earthquake, the worst in China in more than five decades, stood at 69,225 as of August 11, with 17,939 people still missing.



 
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