Quake recovery earns award
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May 12, 2012, Saturday
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YESHE Karmo cheerfully greets visitors and shows them around an exhibition hall displaying folk culture and art of the ethnic Tibetan and Qiang in southwest China's Sichuan province.
The 19-year-old Tibetan woman says she enjoys working as a guide at the site, where she also sells Katak, a white flaxen scarf the Tibetans present with respect, incense and other religious items.
Her workplace, a hall in Shuimo Town of Wenchuan County, was built on the ruins of the 2008 earthquake and opened in September 2010 to showcase ethnic cultures representing 13 counties of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture.
The attraction and its cheerful guide make a perfect example of how quake-hit Sichuan has recovered after the natural disaster, the fourth anniversary of which will be marked today.
Many parts of the province have become significant tourist attractions, with preservation of the area's unique ethnic culture an important part of rebuilding Sichuan.
That approach helped Shuimo, which now receives up to 20,000 visitors daily, win the "Global Best Implementation of Post-Disaster Reconstruction" award in the Sixth Global Forum on Human Settlements held at the United Nations headquarters last year.
Shuimo has drawn large crowds of visitors for its beautiful landscape, successful rebuilding and unique ethnic cultures.
Shuimo is about 10 kilometers from Yingxiu Town in Wenchuan, the epicenter of the 8.0-magnitude quake that left more than 80,000 people dead or missing on May 12, 2008.
The 19-year-old Tibetan woman says she enjoys working as a guide at the site, where she also sells Katak, a white flaxen scarf the Tibetans present with respect, incense and other religious items.
Her workplace, a hall in Shuimo Town of Wenchuan County, was built on the ruins of the 2008 earthquake and opened in September 2010 to showcase ethnic cultures representing 13 counties of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture.
The attraction and its cheerful guide make a perfect example of how quake-hit Sichuan has recovered after the natural disaster, the fourth anniversary of which will be marked today.
Many parts of the province have become significant tourist attractions, with preservation of the area's unique ethnic culture an important part of rebuilding Sichuan.
That approach helped Shuimo, which now receives up to 20,000 visitors daily, win the "Global Best Implementation of Post-Disaster Reconstruction" award in the Sixth Global Forum on Human Settlements held at the United Nations headquarters last year.
Shuimo has drawn large crowds of visitors for its beautiful landscape, successful rebuilding and unique ethnic cultures.
Shuimo is about 10 kilometers from Yingxiu Town in Wenchuan, the epicenter of the 8.0-magnitude quake that left more than 80,000 people dead or missing on May 12, 2008.
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