Settling inChen Yan, 16, can watch the neighborhood going up from the edge of her tent city on the hill above the construction zone. She lives in tent No. 185, an 86-square-foot shelter that sleeps 10. She and her family are among the 384 people from Yuanxing village who survived the quake and are now registered to live here.
Devastation at middle school
Parents mourn the loss of their children killed in the May 12 earthquake ."This is better than in Mianyang," Chen said, referring to the stadium where the family stayed until coming here four days ago. At one point, the stadium housed 30,000 people but the government began relocating them in earnest in the past few days. Today the stadium population is about 7,000, an official there said.
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