A 13-storey ancient pagoda was broken with its upper part into rubbles, at Langzhong, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 12, 2008. The effect of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Wenchuan County spread to the vast adjacent areas, leaving the communications partially severed and many buildings ruined. (Xinhua Photo)

Two wounded persons receive medical treatment outside the makeshift tents in Ningqiang County, north China's Shaanxi Province, on May 13, 2008. Preliminary statistics shows that five persons were killed and more than one hundred wounded in Ningqiang, a county neighbouring the earthquake-hit Sichuan Province.(Xinhua Photo)

(Xinhua News Agency May 13, 2008)