Tens of thousands of people have come back to Beichuan county, one of the worst hit areas in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, to mourn for the dead as Thursday marks the third anniversary of the massive quake that left more than 80,000 dead or missing.
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".
The bird's eye-view photo taken on April 10, 2011 shows part of the rural area in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
State and local family planning departments have been offering medical help to couples who want to have another child after Wenchuan Earthquake.
During the Qingming Festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, people come to the old town of Beichuan to mourn for those dead in the 8-magnitude earthquake in 2008.
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.