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"All Things Considered" hosts Robert Siegel and Melissa Block are in Sichuan Province covering the massive earthquake. They continue to report on the aftermath and recovery efforts. The hosts were in Chengdu with producers Andrea Hsu and Art Silverman when the quake struck. They were preparing for a special week of China coverage that had been planned for next week. Follow this blog for regular updates. ----From http://www.npr.org/blogs/chengdu/

i experienced this disaster in chengdu,it is much more horrible than you heard from midia,chengdu citizens suffered frighten more that real threat.but this earthquake make dujiangyan\wenchuan\towns of mianyang\deyang vanish from map forever.thousands of hundreds of people lost their residents and sufferring from thirsty and stave.local people,chinese,good people from overseas help suffered without hesitate---that makes me moving .i want to say thanks to all the people who care about wenchuan earthquake and wish god bless all of you who gave your helping hand to the suffered.

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