Quake reconstruction makes fast progress

BEIJING - Northwest China's Qinghai province will fulfill its plan to rebuild residences in its rural areas in the Yushu region that were destroyed by an earthquake in 2010, according to the provincial Party chief.

Qiang Wei, Party chief of Qinghai, also said the province will fulfill its plans to rebuild residences in urban places, as well as roads, power equipment and other infrastructures in Yushu by the end of 2011.

The province has finished plans and preliminary designs for 466 projects this year, he said. The reconstruction work will start next month.