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Today is May 12th, said 5-12 (wu-shi er) in Chinese. This date is famous here to remind the big earthquake that happened 3 years ago in Sichuan province, more precisely in the Wenchuan county.
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A lot of TV channels will broadcast some special programs with moving pictures, a little bit tragedy-like, of collapsed houses/buildings, of people who lost their close relatives or friends. But hopefully, they also show some brave people, and images of reconstruction, to see that the country is doing something ! And that Chinese people can overcome this.
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A special program was broadcasted on CCTV1 at evening, with patriotic songs about how Sichuan is a beautiful province with a brave population. Important members of the gov. were there, of course.
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Some little children dressed up as pandas were dancing with one of the singer in the program. At first, when I saw them, I was a little scared. Then I smiled. They are half cute, half scary, what do you think about this ?
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2008 Sichuan earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left
A propos du tremblement de terre au Sichuan - About the Sichuan earthquake - 關於汶川地震