Locals select special purchases for the imminent Spring Festival at Liangshui County of Longnan City, a quake-hit city of northwest China's Gansu Province, on January 23, 2009. [Xinhua]

The pork and sausages are hung high on the rope before rows of temporary houses at Shifang, a quake-hit city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on January 23, 2009. [Xinhua]