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Xi visits epicenter of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, lays flowers for deceased

Xinhua,February 13, 2018 Adjust font size:

WENCHUAN, Sichuan, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday visited Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, epicenter of the magnitude 8 earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited the ruins of a middle school, where he laid flowers in memory of more than 80,000 people killed in the earthquake and heroes who died during rescue work. Enditem

 

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