China will invest 15 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) into reconstruction work in quake-hit Yushu this year, the governor of Qinghai province said on Tuesday.
Geleg Dargye still remembers the moment of desperation when staring at his ruined village after a devastating earthquake two years ago.
It has been two years since the earthquake in Yushu, a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai province, took away Sonam Tsomo's son and daughter, but she can still hear them asking for mom in her dreams.
The nonprofit STEP UP is organizing a secondhand clothing and item drive for nomadic Tibetan communities in Qinghai province's Yushu quake zone.
Yushu remembers one year on
China's government plans to spend 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) this year, about four times the amount last year, to accelerate reconstruction of a Northwestern county flattened by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake last year.
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