Friday, July 4, 2008
Earthquake in Sichuan of China 12/5/2008
Below are some reports on the earthquake in Sichuan from Mytimes.
For three decades, China’s explosive economic growth has been fueled by its enormous pool of migrant workers, perhaps as many as 200 million people who construct roads and buildings, lug coal, fire steel and operate the assembly lines that churn out much of the world’s toys, clothing and electronics. Among them are a huge but uncounted group from Sichuan — estimated at somewhere between 6 million and 20 million.(the workers)they left to find work in wealthier, coastal, regions — and are now tormented by the reports of the worst natural disaster to hit the country in more than 30 years.
Their frantic efforts to get word of their families are thwarted by downed telephone lines and disrupted cellular phone base stations. The surge in calls has locked up functioning lines.
No area of China has supplied as much labor as Sichuan, a fertile, mountainous region in the country’s southwest, home to pandas, bamboo forests, spicy cuisine and some of the country’s most difficult terrain, stretching west into the Tibetan plateau and north toward the arid lands of Gansu Province.
Sichuan also sits along one of Asia’s biggest tectonic faults, making it prone to devastating earthquakes.
When the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, a native of Sichuan, began pushing the country’s economic development in the 1980s, the government allowed poor people from farms and rural areas to move to big cities and coastal areas to work at factories and construction sites.
Millions picked up and left Sichuan. Many have lived for years in cramped dormitories or temporary construction barracks, separated from their families, hoping to make enough to return home.
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