Article: News Feature: 32 years on, China quake orphans pass on love

News Feature: 32 years on, China quake orphans pass on love

TANGSHAN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Youlu was nine years old when his parents died in the devastating earthquake in Tangshan, in north China's Hebei Province, in 1976.

Zhang grew up in a government-run boarding school for quake orphans in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang. He now runs a bookstore in his home city of Tangshan, about 200 kilometers east of Beijing.

His childhood woes came back to him when an 8.0-magnitude quake struck Wenchuan county in the southwestern Sichuan Province last Monday, killing more than 40,000 people.

"My heart ached when I saw those children who lost both parents in the quake: babies who survived ...

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