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Article: News Feature: 32 years on, China quake orphans pass on love
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- May 21, 2008
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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 ...