After the Wenchuan earthquake, in the field of primary and secondary schools, and including buildings in public places and residential areas, especially in the rebuilding process in Wenchuan, China has intensified the work on making things earthquake-proof. This work has been done continuously. Concerning this matter, you can make some enquiries with the Minstry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the education authorities.
汶川地震发生以后，中国对中小学校包括一些公共场所的建筑，包括民居，特别是汶川地震恢复重建过程中，都强化了抗震设防工作，这方面的工作我们一直在做，有关的情况，可以向住房和城乡建设部和教育部门做一些询问。
Civil Affairs Ministry’s disaster relief director Zou Ming (邹铭), answering a foreign journalist’s question on a press conference convened by the State Council Information Office on Thursday, quoted by Singapore’s Morning News.
According to “some reports” quoted by Morning News, 70 per cent of Yushu County’s (玉树县) schools have collapsed in Wednesday’s / Thursday’s earthquake in Qinghai Province, and at least 66 students and ten teachers were killed.
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“Older buildings fell, newer ones stayed up”, Reuters, April 16, 2010
