One-on-one Construction Aid Plan: The State Council required major provinces in booming eastern and central parts of the country to adopt reconstruction work in certain cities and counties in Sichuan.

and Tibetan areas in four neighboring provinces—Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan. It is these Tibetan areas outside the TAR—home to more than 50 percent of all ethnic Tibetans—that are ...

More than 71,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble following the devastating earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province. Click on the map to find out more about some of the ...