exactly one year ago, a devastating earthquake shook the lives of millions of people in China, leaving behind 90,000 people dead or missing and 15 million displaced, according to official data.
Today 12 months later, he remembers the disaster that shocked the country Asia in the countdown to the Beijing Olympics last summer.
The earthquake measuring 7.9 degrees on the Richter scale, devastated the center of China and it was noted even in the capital, located at 2000 miles away. Today various commemorations were held in different parts of the country.
In Wenchuan, the epicenter of the earthquake, has opened a sculpture of a watch party at 2.28, exact time the earthquake broke out in a ceremony attended by President Hu Jintao and other government leaders.
Beichuan, one of the cities hardest hit by the tragedy, where only 4000 of the 22000 residents managed to survive, has become a tourist spot and pilgrimage where the Chinese come to see with their own eyes ruins of the devastated city.
The new Beichuan and supervivivientes be moved to 23 km from its old location, and the ruins will be rebuilt on a memorial to that history will remember one of the worst natural disasters to which China has faced in decades.
No one will forget and be forgotten. This is how the country is expressed in an anniversary that has the memory of a nation that joined before the disaster that was hard to cope with the tragedy.
But this is not the opinion of the parents of more than 5300 children who perished under the rubble of the many schools that collapsed in Sichuan today a year ago. The parents blamed local government corruption and building wings, allegedly raised their schools poor quality control standards. The government promised an inquiry into the causes that led to many centers school to collapse, but far from giving an explanation, Beijing has ensured that there was a human error and you can not blame anyone for it.
While continuing the reconstruction efforts that are expected to be given for completion in September next year, China will remember this day as one of the darkest in its modern history.
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