Source:China Meteorological News Press

Recently many departments included Ministry of Civil Affair and General Office of National Committee for Disaster Reduction organized meetings to analyze the conditions of natural disasters of China in 2012.

YILIANG, Yunnan, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Reconstruction in quake-hit regions in southwest China's Yunnan province began on Tuesday, local authorities said.

The reconstruction is slated to last from October 2012 to September 2014, paid for with 5.6 billion yuan (890.96 million U.S dollars) in funds raised by the provincial government, local authorities said.

10/05/2012 16:25 GMT

by Neil Connor

BEIJING, Oct 05, 2012 (AFP) - The bodies of all 18 schoolchildren buried in a landslide in China have been recovered, officials said Friday, as authorities defended returning them to school following recent deadly earthquakes.

The landslip, triggered by sustained rains, buried the school and three farmhouses on Thursday in southwestern China's Yunnan province, where two quakes last month killed 81 people and injured hundreds.

10/04/2012 16:37 GMT

by Neil Connor

BEIJING, Oct 04, 2012 (AFP) - Sixteen Chinese children were confirmed dead Thursday after a landslide engulfed their school as they made up classes lost due to deadly earthquakes last month, state media said.

Three others were missing after the landslide buried the school and three farmhouses at Zhenhe village in the mountainous southwestern province of Yunnan, Xinhua news agency reported.

BEIJING, 14 September 2012 – UNICEF is mobilizing to send urgently needed support for children affected by the 5.7 magnitude earthquake which recently struck Yunnan. The tremor, which killed 81 and injured more than 800, wiped out 1,900 houses and severely damaged another 37,500. Subsequent heavy rains and mudslides have caused additional damage, and hampered access to the region.

English.news.cn 2012-09-17 23:45:14

YILIANG, Yunnan, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-seven schools in Yiliang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province had resumed classes as of Monday afternoon after multiple earthquakes struck the area earlier this month, the county's education department said.

The earthquakes left three students dead and injured another 22 students and three teachers, the department said.

A total of 294 schools were damaged to varying degrees, affecting 94,861 students, the department said.

YILIANG, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- About 40 percent of schools in an earthquake-hit southwestern Chinese city have resumed classes a week after the natural disaster rocked the area, a local education official said on Friday.

The quake in Zhaotong city halted classes at 821 schools, including 733 damaged ones, affecting nearly 348,000 students, Liu Lehua, deputy director of education department of Zhaotong, said at a press conference.

YILIANG, Yunnan, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- All houses collapsed in the multiple earthquakes that struck part of southwestern Yunnan province on Sept. 7 will have been rebuilt by next June, rescue authorities said late Saturday.

The residents' homes will be first rebuilt, followed by cultural, education and health infrastructures and then government buildings, the rescue headquarters said in a statement.

YILIANG, Yunnan, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Authorities have stepped up sanitary efforts and set up a monitoring network in an earthquake-hit county in southwest China to prevent an outbreak of contagious diseases.

"Due to our efforts, there has been no epidemic outbreak of any kind so far," Lu Lin, head of Yunnan's provincial center for disease control and prevention, said on Wednesday.

But Lu said the risks remain high as Yiliang County was drenched again by floods this week.