China should train more professionals to provide psychological counseling and treat mental trauma among not only the victims of major disasters but also their rescuers, said a senior official with the Red Cross Society of China on Thursday.
Liu used to live in the old town of Beichuan county, China's only Qiang autonomous county in southwestern Sichuan province. The small town was virtually obliterated by the magnitude-8.0 earthquake.
The pretty girl Chen Xingwen was born in a temporary delivery room of Meishan People's Hospital on May 12, 2008. As the first baby who was born at the hospital after the devastating Sichuan earthquake, Chen suddenly became a well-known "quake baby".
In a rehabilitation center in the city of Deyang in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Li Xiaoqun is exercising on a stationary bike. It's hard to tell at first sight that her right leg is artificial.
More than 3,500 families whose homes were destroyed in the devastating 2008 Sichuan quake received new apartments Thursday through a computer drawing, local authorities said.
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.
Before October 2009, when Wugui village in Sichuan province was still a messy neighborhood. it never occurred to Zheng Daoxiang that one day he would be relaxing on a sofa in a two-story house,
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.