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Jointly established by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Sichuan University (Sichuan U), China's first Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) has recently been officially opened. (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Jointly established by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Sichuan University (Sichuan U), China's first Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) has recently been officially opened. Both institutions also held the...

NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The publication of two seminal books that illustrate the destruction caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake in May 2008 and then the miraculous reconstruction of that part of Sichuan Province four years later, has been announced jointly by McGraw-Hill Education and Sichuan People's Publishing House, an affiliate of the Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co. Ltd. The two illustrated books are being released and shown at this year's London...

CHENGDU, China, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Chengdu Institute of Care-life (ICL), Chengdu Meihuan Tech. Co., Ltd. ("Meihuan Tech.") and I. Trade International Trade Ltd. ("I. Trade") signed a strategic co-operation agreement last week. I. Trade is going to set up the earthquake early warning system in Haiti to reduce the damage and loss caused by earthquakes. Earthquake early warning is a technology that gives people alarms before the arrival of a disastrous earthquake wave to...

Focus of special issue by world's premier seismology journalThe devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake marks a defining moment for China's earthquake science program. The focus of a special November issue of the prestigious Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), the M 7.9 earthquake has garnered intense interest among seismologists, allowing the Chinese science community to demonstrate its capability to a global audience.The earthquake produced an enormous disaster, killing...

The impact of China's devastating 2008 earthquake was substantially lessened by environmental conservation programs for some of the country's most fragile habitats, according to research published in a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science this week.Analysis of satellite imagery and field data by scientists at Michigan State University and in China show the quake "“ and the resulting landslides "“ affected 10 percent of the forests covering the mountains that are home to...

HAIKOU, China, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- At a ceremony held at its Haikou headquarters on the morning of Jan. 18, HNA Group donated RMB500,000 each to the China Police Martyrs and Heroes Foundation and the China Red Cross Society to assist China's participation in post-earthquake relief and reconstruction in Haiti and to express admiration and pay tribute to China's peacekeeping police officers killed in Haiti. This act of charity by HNA Group makes it the first among Chinese...

The massive Sichuan earthquake in China last year has decelerated efforts to save the country's giant panda, which is regarded as China's national treasure.The quake had massive implications for the panda population as it demolished a primary food source, inhibited its sex drive, and caused tourism profits to decrease."The biggest impact has been on the food source of the panda, as a lot of bamboo was destroyed," Wang Chengdong, the director of the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding...

Mudslides that followed the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study shows.Mudslides wipe away plants and topsoil, depleting terrain of nutrients for plant regrowth and burying swaths of vegetation. Buried vegetable matter decomposes and releases...

Hong Kong to aid Sichuan in quake rebuilding CHENGDU, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will donate 1.665 billion yuan to help Sichuan Province in southwestern China with its rebuilding after the May 12 earthquake. The money, about 243.6 million U.S. dollars, will be used in 20 reconstruction projects covering infrastructural facilities, schools, hospitals and natural reserves, according to the agreements signed here Saturday. Wei Hong, executive vice...

Wenchuan quake "not linked" to Sichuan water projects: Chinese official BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The massive May 12 earthquake centered in Wenchuan County in the southwestern province of Sichuan had no direct link with the development of water resources in Sichuan, such as dams, a Chinese official said on Wednesday. The county seat of Wenchuan lies atop fault lines and Wenchuan is historically earthquake-prone, said Cheng Dianlong, deputy chief of the State Flood Control and Drought...