January Memorabilia in Wenchuan (May 12-June 12, 2008)

　　05.12 8533 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: strong earthquake of magnitude 8

　　05.13 12,000 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: troops entered Wenchuan

　　05.14 14866 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords:: the army entered the affected counties

　　● At 14: 28, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province. Beijing, Hubei, Hainan, Jiangxi, Tianjin, Chongqing, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities all felt the earthquake.

　　● At 16: 40, Premier Wen Jiabao flew to the disaster area and arrived in Dujiangyan at 20: 00 to direct disaster relief.

　　● Hu Jintao presided over the deployment of earthquake relief in Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in the evening.

　　● At 1: 15 am, Wenchuan County got in touch with the outside world for the first time.

　　● More than 300 people from the first rescue team entered Wenchuan County at noon. Rescue troops walked into Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan in the afternoon and sent back the first news from the epicenter. Only 2,300 people survived from more than 10,000 local people.

　　● Wen Jiabao rushed to Beichuan and said to the affected people, "Your pain is our pain."

　　● More than 100,000 military and armed police officers and men entered all the affected cities and counties to carry out rescue work.

　　05.15 19509 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: life channel open

　　05.16 21577 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: saving lives is still the core

　　05.17 confirmed 28,881 deaths.

　　Keywords: dammed lake

　　● 130,000 troops entered all severely affected towns and villages.

　　● At 21: 30, the entire National Highway 317 from Manager County of Marcand to Wenchuan County was opened.

　　● Beichuan, Hu Jintao, expressed condolences to the affected people and pointed out that the top priority is still to save people. Wen Jiabao left Sichuan, saying that he must support the whole country and never give up easily. 　　● Wen Jiabao presided over the meeting of the General Command and decided to pay pensions to the families of the people who died in the disaster. Within 3 months, the needy people in the disaster area will be given 1 kg of rations and 10 yuan subsidy per person per day.

　　● Thirteen dammed lakes were formed in the disaster area, and more than 40,000 people in Qingchuan and Beichuan counties were evacuated urgently.

　　05.18 confirmed 32,476 deaths.

　　Keywords: the establishment of a national day of mourning

　　05.19 34073 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: national mourning

　　05.20 40075 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: Aftershocks hurt Sichuan again

　　● The General Office of the State Council announced that May 19th to 21st will be the national mourning day.

　　● The Wenchuan Earthquake was finally set at 8.0.

　　● At 14: 28, 1.3 billion Chinese people observed a three-minute silence in memory of the victims of the Wenchuan earthquake.

　　The State Council decided to provide 600 yuan with basic living expenses for orphans, the elderly and the disabled each month within three months.

　　● The Central Organization Department and the Organization Department of jiangsu provincial party committee respectively issued a call to pay "special membership dues".

　　● The aftershocks continued, making Sichuan Pingwu once again an isolated city; Qingchuan mountain cracked; Beichuan county is closed to the whole city.

　　05.21 41353 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: three threats to disaster relief

　　05.22 51 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: Beichuan city closure

　　05.23 55740 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: how difficult it is to prosper the country

　　● The central government will allocate 70 billion yuan this year to help the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas, and the public expenditure of the central state organs this year will be reduced by 5% compared with the budget.

　　● Aftershocks, dammed lakes and epidemics threaten disaster relief.

　　● Premier Wen Jiabao rushed to the disaster area twice, and as soon as he got off the plane, he rushed to Beichuan to inspect the dammed lake.

　　● All rescuers have been evacuated from Beichuan, and there are no signs of life on the life detector.

　　● Wen Jiabao went to the resumption point of Beichuan Middle School to encourage the affected students and wrote "How hard it is to prosper the country" on the blackboard.

　　● The Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the detailed donation list for Wenchuan earthquake.

　　● Twenty-one provinces across the country volunteered for disaster-stricken counties, and Jiangsu supported Mianzhu.

　　05.24 60 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: press conference on the ruins

　　05.25 62664 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: the strongest aftershock occurred in Qingchuan

　　05.26 65080 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: emergency transfer of 160,000 people

　　Wen Jiabao met Ban Ki-moon who arrived in Yingxiu Town, the hardest hit area. Wen Jiabao was interviewed by Chinese and foreign journalists on the ruins of Yingxiu.

　　● the State Council decided to set up a post-disaster reconstruction planning group. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said that the registration of orphan adoption has not yet been carried out.

　　● Sichuan Province claims that there are 5,498 orphans in the disaster area.

　　● An aftershock of magnitude 6.4 occurred in Qingchuan, which was the strongest aftershock in the disaster area after the Wenchuan earthquake. Eight people were killed and nearly a thousand people were injured.

　　Hu Jintao presided over the Politburo meeting, demanding that post-disaster reconstruction be placed in a more prominent position.

　　● Mi-26 dropped an excavator on Tangjiashan dammed lake, and the original dam bombing plan was temporarily stranded. In order to prevent the dammed lake from breaking, 160,000 people in Mianyang were urgently transferred.

　　05.27 67183 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords:: Sichuan-Shaanxi recurrence of strong aftershocks

　　05.28 68,109 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: post-disaster reconstruction

　　05.29 68,516 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: investigation of collapsed school buildings

　　● A strong aftershock of magnitude 5.4 occurred in Qingchuan, Sichuan, and a strong aftershock of magnitude 5.7 occurred in Ningqiang, Shaanxi. Nearly 100 people were injured and 420,000 houses collapsed. 　　● The National Development and Reform Commission said that it will take three years to complete the main tasks of post-disaster reconstruction. 　　● The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine began to sample and investigate the collapsed school buildings in the disaster areas, and a member of the earthquake relief expert group of the Ministry of Construction identified Juyuan Middle School as a problem building.

　　05.30 68858 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: dammed lake threatens millions of people

　　05.31 68977 people were confirmed dead

　　Keywords: decisive battle against the dammed lake

　　06.01 69016 people were confirmed dead.

　　Keywords: disaster relief helicopter crash

　　● The Tangjiashan dammed lake is expected to flood in early June, and 1.1 million people in Mianyang are ready to move at any time.

　　● Lee Myung-bak went to the disaster area to express condolences to the masses and became the first foreign head of state to arrive in the disaster area.

　　● The Tangjiashan dammed lake naturally floods at any time, and the rescue officers and soldiers begin to evacuate. 　　● A Mi-171 disaster relief helicopter crashed over Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan. There are 18 people on board, including 5 crew members. 　　06.03 69107 people were confirmed dead 　　06.05 69127 people were confirmed dead 　　06.06 69130 people were confirmed dead 　　● The relevant departments of Sichuan Province indicated that the post-disaster reconstruction time is tentatively set at 8 years. Sichuan began to choose a site to build an earthquake site museum. 　　Wen Jiabao visited the dammed lake again, demanding that no one should be harmed again.

　　● The Ministry of Health said that the per capita medical subsidy for the wounded transferred from the disaster area was 28,000 yuan.

　　● Tangjiashan dammed lake discharges at 7: 08. 　　06.09 69142 people were confirmed dead

　　06.10 69146 people were confirmed dead

　　Key words:The crash plane found the dammed lake and successfully rescued it.

　　06.11 69146 people were confirmed dead 　　Wen Jiabao signed the the State Council Order and promulgated the Regulations on Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction. 　　● The wreckage of the Mi-171 transport helicopter wrecked by the disaster relief forces has been found. All 18 people on board were killed and 17 bodies have been found.

　　● The flood of Tangjiashan dammed lake successfully passed through Mianyang, Sichuan, and the rescue work won a decisive victory.

　　● The body of the last victim of the crashed helicopter was found.