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系列报道(7)：地震的深远影响
【星星生活-星网讯】
地震的深远影响(newstarnet.com)
(加拿大中国地震灾区采访队记者胡宪6月18日图文报道)四川汶川地震给灾区人民带来了永生的深远影响，这一点可以从震后新生儿的名字上反映出来。(newstarnet.com)
我们在结束了对九州体育馆的采访之后，来到绵阳市人民医院妇产科中心。据大夫介绍，震后新生儿每天都有，现在就有五个。我们采访了其中两个。一个来到世上还不到14个小时的男婴，被他经营建材批发生意的父亲柴亮起名为柴震阳。新妈妈叫王定春，今年才21岁，她回答记者提问时说，给孩子起这个名字的意思就是地震后的太阳一定会带来更好的生活。隔壁病房的新生儿叫黄念念，已经四天大了，也是男孩子。这个新妈妈是从一怀孕就停止了工作，只等孩子报到的。她怎么也没想到，静养了八个月之后竟会仓皇惊恐地从七层楼跑下来。她坚持说孩子是受了地震惊吓而早产的。她说孩子听见任何声音都会烦躁不安。像今天这样听我说话而不哭还是四天来的第一次。她希望儿子永远不要忘记这次大地震，因此起名叫念念。(newstarnet.com)
“纪念的念”，她强调说。(newstarnet.com)
图一：13个小时大的柴震阳
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图二：黄年年
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九州体育馆，朗朗读书声(newstarnet.com)
(加拿大中国地震灾区采访队记者胡宪6月18日图文报道)采访队今日（6月18日）的目标地是着名的核科研城市──绵阳。绵阳市有四个重灾区：北川、江油、安县和平武。在绵阳市宣传部进行登记之后，我们到九州体育馆采访。这里是汶川地震发生后最早的灾民庇护所，是温家宝总理和孩子们共洒泪水的地方；最多时曾容纳5万人，后来逐步疏散，目前还有2000多名灾民和工作人员。(newstarnet.com)
有警员过来检查记者的采访证，并说加强管理是因为前几天曾有外籍媒体在此处进行与记者身份不符的行为。(newstarnet.com)
图一（组）：九州体育馆秩序井然  (newstarnet.com)
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图二（组）：天太热，大部分灾民住外边  (newstarnet.com)
图三（组）：灾民日常生活  (newstarnet.com)
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采访队的重点是帐篷学校。这所学校的主体大篷都是由港澳同胞捐助的。进了“校门”，左边帐篷的学生们在编排节目，右边帐篷的孩子们在看电影。往里走是一排排小号的帐篷教室，小学二年级课堂正在教英语，初中一年级课堂在讲酸雨的成因，还有一班学生正在集体朗诵李白诗歌。(newstarnet.com)
图四（组）：帐篷学校  (newstarnet.com)
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两个女孩子手拉手过来翻看我的采访证。这名主动和我说话的孩子叫母华，上六年级，大水县唐家山人。地震那天她在老师带领下跑了出来，但是她再也没有见到、也永远见不到自己亲爱的哥哥了。母华平静的说着，没哭，她的坚强令人心痛和感动。她现在和爷爷住在这里，她说长大后要当医生或者科学家，当医生是想让这次受伤的病人快快好起来；当科学家是想解决现在科学解决不了的地震问题。这次地震让许多孩子迅速长大。(newstarnet.com)
图五：母华（带眼镜者）和她的新朋友(newstarnet.com)
图六：别怕(newstarnet.com)
对着学校的大门有一条横幅，写着“别怕，我们会一直跟你们在一起”。来自全中国各地的志愿者们在上面签下了数不清的名字。
死亡之城──绵阳(newstarnet.com)
第六天──绵阳(newstarnet.com)
(加拿大中国地震灾区采访队记者Christina Stevens6月18日报道) (注：Christina文中的Bechuan应为Beichuan，北川)(newstarnet.com)
DAY 6 Mian Yang City The Dead City. That is what locals call where we are headed today. Bechuan, where there was the single largest loss of life in last month's earthquake, and an estimated five to seven thousand people are still unaccounted for, presumed buried under massive land slides. On the way we go through Mian Yang city, past the stadium that at one point held about sixty thousand residents from Bechuan. About two thousand people are still here, including many elderly and children. They take shelter under a wide outdoor walkway, sleeping on a colourful array of quilts and blankets, startling few possessions tucked alongside. It is at this stadium where we find 14 year old Yi Su. His eyes are serious and he seems weary and old for his age. His story is one a child should never have to tell.(newstarnet.com)
Su was at school when the quake hit, and their teacher rushed them outside. "Once we were out, we looked back and our school building collapsed and we were so scared and it was so dusty," he recounts through an interpreter. He was immediately worried about his parents and ran the one kilometre home, "and then I met my father and grandma and other relatives and asked about my mom and they said my mom was gone." His mother had been buried. Su says he misses her terribly, and can still hear her voice, telling him to study hard; so here at a tent school, that's exactly what he does. Burying his grief in his books, a temporary reprieve from reality, a future to focus on.(newstarnet.com)
His classroom is a non descript blue tent, in a row with dozens of others. Like many of the thousands of tents lining the roads in this area, it was donated by a foreign aid group. Tents purchased by the Canadian red cross are still being trucked to the area. The woman in charge the Sichuan relief project for the Red Cross, is far from her Ontario home, but there is no place Yunhong Xhang would rather be than helping, and work here is far from over. "The need is still massive after an earthquake of such scope, in the village and the prefecture we have visited the past few days we did see the need for water for temporary shelter for hygiene and for non food items," says Xhang. At this point I realise Canadians have a lot to be proud of, having raised the second most money of any country (after the U.S.) for the Red Cross effort, it is easy to see the donations are making a tangible difference.(newstarnet.com)
The 2500 ents Canadian donations are providing will give shelter to people like Su and his father. People who have lost everything. In Su's tent classroom, yet another number gives pause. Out of his 17 classmates, three have lost immediate family members. For now, they can't even go to their home town, its off limits due to the risk of more landslides and disease: it truly is the Dead City. But among the living, there is a strength that is undeniable, a determination not to be beaten, as Su says "I miss my mother so much, but I have my grandma and my father and we will live together as a family, and create happiness." I leave him then, hoping against hope, that will come true.(newstarnet.com)
14 year old Yi Su, from Bechuan
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Chinese Red Cross volunteer unloads tent shipment at Chengdu Airport.
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Eyes on Earth's wrath
Father of T.O. man has ringside seat at Sichuan quake and records an astonishing tale(newstarnet.com)
Wed, June 18, 2008(newstarnet.com)
By THANE BURNETT(newstarnet.com)
CHENGDU -- Trapped for 10 days in the Stone Age, chinese engineer Yi Kun Zhong used the only thing he had in his pocket to chronicle his struggle to survive. (newstarnet.com)
From the very centre of last month's earthquake in the heart of China, he wrote a remarkable diary on his cell phone. And one of the first things he did after he was airlifted back to a shattered but modern civilization, was to press "thin" and transmit it all to his worried son, waiting in Canada. (newstarnet.com)
The journal begins during the eight minutes the country will never forget. (newstarnet.com)
The Chinese government officially began registering the 7.9 magnitude quake at 14:28 on May 12; however, Zhong was standing so close to the quake's epicentre that he and the other men working at the Loiand Scui Gin power plant felt the mountain shake eight minutes before the rest of the country. (newstarnet.com)
At 66 years old, Zhong is a practical and meticulous man. He makes notes and calculations about most of the important things in his life. (newstarnet.com)
GROUND MOVED (newstarnet.com)
He was planning for a half day at work when he went to inspect a friend's equipment. He was almost about to leave when the ground beneath their feet began to move. Boulders -- some of them five or six tons -- broke off from the surrounding mountains and barreled down into the valley. (newstarnet.com)
At the very start, the 28 workers thought the quake would pass quickly. Instead, they had front-row seats to a historic shift in the earth. (newstarnet.com)
The planet was telling them it was pissed off. (newstarnet.com)
"There was a sound coming -- a very terrible sound," he recalls as we sit on the porch at his home in the city of Du Jiang Yan yesterday. (newstarnet.com)
"It was like a train's voice, from far coming near." (newstarnet.com)
The sky, growing dark, tried to compete with the chaos in the ground. (newstarnet.com)
Then the wave hit -- a wall of pressure, the senior engineer explained. (newstarnet.com)
Everyone sat on the ground, covering their heads from the wrath around them. From their terrified huddle, they watched two nearby mountains move and smash into one another. (newstarnet.com)
A family of peasants who lived in the 150 metres between had no chance at all. They were too slow. The moving mountains were too fast. (newstarnet.com)
"Although the sky is dark, we can see a light ... like fire," Zhong recalls. (newstarnet.com)
The pressure from the ground was causing the area to glow red -- as if it were going to open wide and swallow them them all. (newstarnet.com)
The mountains continued to shake off prehistoric dander, filling the ground with rolling rocks. Zhong was hit, along with many others, and injured his back and feet. (newstarnet.com)
The sky began to brighten, but it only gave them a clearer view of the struggle ahead. They were hiding under heavy equipment when the red dust began to hit the ground -- almost 23 cm thick and covering everything. Not knowing what record would be left, he took pictures of himself with his cellphone. (newstarnet.com)
By then the tremors were constant -- arriving by the thousands to pick at the bones of what the major quake had left behind -- and the men soon realized they were trapped. The merging mountains, a river and a blocked roadway had conspired to keep the witnesses where they were. (newstarnet.com)
The power plant was dead, and supplies -- other than a few bags of rice they shared with a local farmer -- were sparse. But worse, they had no idea what had happened to the outside world. (newstarnet.com)
Then that first night, the rains came. The workers took shelter in a farmer's pig barn, which stood while mountains fell. (newstarnet.com)
"That night it was so dark we could not see our five fingers in front of our face," he remembers. (newstarnet.com)
By then he had started his first-hand account on his phone, though no signal could get out to deliver the statement. (newstarnet.com)
They woke up on the second day to more tremors. But the men feared something even worse might be coming their way. Guarding the valley is China's highest water-dam -- a gateway for millions of litres of water. They worried the structure would break and wash them all away. So they looked for higher ground -- the healthier carrying the weak. (newstarnet.com)
In the days to follow, they survived on rice soup. But they weren't prepared to just wait for death to find them. They picked the four strongest men who, with a rope, a knife, some rice and two eggs each, were to climb out of the mountains to the outside world. (newstarnet.com)
"I worried for my family more than I worried about me," Zhong tells me. (newstarnet.com)
So he wrote a note to his wife and two grown children to say he was still alive and tucked it into the pocket of one of the brave four. Those men would later make it out alive -- but barely. (newstarnet.com)
On the third day a farmer had found a broken 20-year-old panda radio which Zhong and the men fixed. The only voice they could hear on it was the official transmission from the Chinese government telling them they were not alone and suffering. But while they heard of troops fanning out across Sichuan province, they knew it would be difficult to find them. (newstarnet.com)
The days rolled by as did the constant tremors. The men ate their daily allotment of 150-grams of rice. Zhong worked on his diary. And they watched the flies gather over dead bodies. (newstarnet.com)
It took a week for the first soldiers to find them -- special forces troops carrying rice over the mountains. A medic tended to the wounded, but they all still needed to get out of the mountains. Zhong asked that he be left behind but the young troops insisted on carrying him. In fact, they used a line from a much loved Chinese soap opera -- "never give up ... never drop off." (newstarnet.com)
4 HOURS TO MOVE 3 KM (newstarnet.com)
Amid the shifting debris, it took four hours to move a mere 3 km. (newstarnet.com)
By May 19, they had reached a community where they could organize a military helicopter out, but even that would take two more days. When it finally lifted off, Zhong -- still writing his diary of life at the centre of the earth -- was among the first to fly out. As soon a he was able, he pressed "send" and the amazing account appeared almost instantly in Ryan Zhong's email folder in Canada. (newstarnet.com)
Zhong's 32-year-old son, who lives in Toronto, was worried about his missing father but somehow knew he would survive to tell a remarkable tale. (newstarnet.com)
"I couldn't understand all he went through until I read his words," says Ryan. "Suddenly it was all very real to me."
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