Yingxiu Earthquake Site

People often have such a moment is very unforgettable, but on weekdays have been abandoned in a certain unremarkable corner, maybe one day, inadvertently will touch the scene, this will surround all your thinking, fill all your emotions, drown all your current happiness. Today, I came to a place that was not included in the itinerary planning, the town that touched the hearts of every Chinese 13 years ago - Yingxiu Town. I believe that everyone is not unfamiliar, standing in front of the ruins, the heart is as heavy as the sky, I don't want to say, I can't bear to look directly, and follow the narrator with a sad heart and experience the unbearable 2008... Yingxiu is not the past, but people who are happy will feel sad when they see those sites.

＂ Yingxiu Earthquake Site ＂ is located in Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. At 14:28:04 on May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.0 on the Richter scale occurred in Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, because Yingxiu Town was located at the epicenter, with great losses of personnel and property, and the beautiful and prosperous Yingxiu in the past was almost razed to the ground. This is the most destructive, widest-range, worst-loss, and most difficult-to-relieve earthquake since the founding of New China. After the earthquake, the victims of the earthquake area began work of earthquake relief and reconstruction of their homes with the full support of the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and now Yingxiu welcomes guests from all over the world with a new appearance. In order to commemorate and mourn the compatriots who died in the 5.12 earthquake, the state has designated May 12 as the National Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day since 2009. In May 2013, the ＂5.12 Wenchuan Mega Earthquake Memorial Hall ＂, located in Yingxiu Town, opened.

Qikou Middle School in the "5.12" Wenchuan mega-earthquake all school buildings sink, collapse, before the earthquake before our eyes these buildings are 5 floors, after the earthquake, 5 floors only have 3 floors, 3 floors directly changed to 1 floor, the original 1 floor and 2 floors became debris. The ruins of the Lukou Middle School were badly damaged. In order to remember and preserve this history, the ruins of the Lukou Middle School were preserved as a site intact. It is the only large-scale site that has been more fully preserved in the "5．12" Wenchuan mega-earthquake. It is also the venue for the anniversary ceremony of the "5．12" Wenchuan mega-earthquake in 2009.

Yingxiu Town is located at the south gate of Aba Prefecture, 78km from Chengdu, and is a must-pass place to enter and exit Jiuzhaigou, Wolong, and Siguniang Mountain. It is an important transportation road. The existing arable land area of the town is 1.800 mu, and the arable land has been withdrawn 4.950 mu. Yingxiu Town actively responded to the national call and earnestly implemented the policy of returning farmland to forest (grass). Due to the annual reduction of arable land area, rural economic income faces major problems. In order to change the status quo and get rid of the dilemma, Yingxiu Town accelerated the pace of structural adjustment, combined with the actual situation of the town and village, in the economic development of the typical out of a road mainly in the breeding industry, planting industry, is Yingxiu industrial restructuring has made breakthrough progress.

Wenchuan earthquake can not forget people and things, people can forget with time, but on May 12, 2008, at 14:28:04, people suffered the "Wenchuan earthquake" can not be forgotten with time. Although the earthquake occurred at the junction of Yingxiu Town and Lukou Town, Wenchuan County, But the earthquake affected Beichuan, Qingchuan, Dujiangyan, Shifang, Mianzhu and other places, and the earthquake severely damaged more than 100,000 square kilometers. The people in the earthquake area should not forget the people who came to disaster relief immediately, the rescue of the people who left their lives and died, and the people of the whole country helped.