Three years after a devastating earthquake, the worst-hit areas in Sichuan and neighboring provinces, phoenix-like, have risen from the rubble.
Special: Sichuan - Three Years On
Dujiangyan in Sichuan province wants to use its relics, pandas, Taoist history and mountains to turn itself into an international tourist destination, local authorities said.
Bailu, which took longer than other quake-hit towns and cities in Sichuan province to recover, was careful to rebuild in a way that would make it both more modern and more attractive to outside tourism and investments.
Bailu, a township severely damaged by the 8.0 earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, is at work building itself into a tourism destination with a French touch, 100 years after a French missionary built a Catholic church in the town.
An earthquake shattered the lives of the villagers, but in the aftermath of rebuilding, traditional paintings have helped them pick up the pieces.
Sichuan province has endeavored to rejuvenate its tourism industry shaken by the earthquake last year.
Residents of a town situated in the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are moving in to new homes days ahead of the Chinese New Year.
Relatives burn joss paper at the grave of an 11-year-old girl student at a local cemetery in Yingxiu town, the epicenter of the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008 that killed at least at least 68,000 people, in Wenchuan county of Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sunday, April 3, 2011, two days before the Tomb Sweeping Day.
While most focus on caring for survivors of Wenchuan's earthquake, Ma Fuyang has spent the last three years tending to its dead.
Yang Qinggui lost his 19-year old son in the deadly magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake that struck Southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, 2008.
Children affected by natural disasters in China now have safe places to recover from their trauma.
Most people can't tell 19-year-old Liao Bo underwent a left thigh amputation three years ago when they see him play basketball with his classmates.