Reconstruction is bustling across the region: More than 1 million housing units in cities and rural areas have been completed, while reconstruction on about half of the damaged hospitals and clinics has started, Xinhua quoted Yu Wei, a spokesman with the provincial government, as saying.

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His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.

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