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/ 26 May 2008

Phoenix city Tangshan wins battle for life

Sitting in the Hongyan restaurant, its vast three-storey marble facade rising above a busy street, Liu Shunyou stubbed out his cigarette.”I only started smoking to block out the smell of dead bodies all around the town,” he explained. As Sichuan’s devastated quake zone turns its attention to rebuilding, it should look north-east for inspiration.