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Article: China Focus: Tens of thousands of Chinese seek to adopt quake orphans
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 22, 2008
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China Focus: Tens of thousands of Chinese seek to adopt quake
orphans
by Li Jianmin, Ding Jing and Liu Jin
BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of families across
China, eager to show their love, have overwhelmed local civil
affairs authorities with telephone calls asking to adopt those
orphaned by the worst earthquake since the founding of New China in
1949.
Last week's 8.0-magnitude earthquake centered in Wenchuan County
in southwest China's Sichuan Province left more than 50,000 people
dead, almost 30,000 missing, tens of thousands injured and more than
4.8 million homeless.
It also left thousands of children whose parents' whereabouts are
unknown. The number of those ...