Hanwang, China News

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Photo taken on July 4, 2011 shows the flooded road linking Hanwang and Qingping towns in Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province.

An excavator works on the damaged road linking Hanwang and Qingping towns in Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 4, 2011.

As crops grow taller in warm April, farmers are busy with watering them. The sound of gurgling water is heard along the road to the Guansong Pengyan Irrigation Project in Hanwang Town, Mianzhu City in Sichuan Province that was hard hit by the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008.

People move into a newly built residential community in Hanwang Town, Sichuan Province The ground was shaking.