Preservation of Sichuan quake destruction

Preservation of Sichuan quake destruction

BEIJING, China - Tourists visit a building (back) damaged by the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in Yingxiu in Wenchuan County on April 21, 2011. Some local governments are preserving buildings that were damaged in the disaster.

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