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China to build one million transit homes for quake-hit
Beijing News.Net
Thursday 22nd May, 2008 (IANS)
Beijing, May 22 (Xinhua) China's ministry of housing and urban-rural development Thursday said it has asked authorities in the areas hit by the May 12 quake to build one million temporary homes for the victims.
A circular issued by the ministry stipulated that local authorities should construct one primary school, one clinic and one retail store for every 1,000 temporary homes. For every 2,000 houses, a middle school should be built, it added.
The circular said the temporary homes should be either assembled with steel sandwich panels or made of lightweight steel and plywood kit sets. It set Aug 10 as the deadline to complete construction of the transit houses.
On May 12, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China and affected many other parts of the country. The death toll had increased to 51,000, according to government estimate.
In Sichuan province, 2.9 million houses were flattened and more than 14 million damaged, making millions of people homeless, according to a rough estimate.
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Anonymous
05-22-08, 11:23 AM |
China to build one million transit homes for quake-hit
There are people who work hard to get people out of natural disaster. There are also people who talk about high sounding human right but did not do a thing for the victims. Talk is really cheap.
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