Late last month officials agreed that Japanese military aircraft would bring relief materials to Sichuan.
Within the hour, the first Caijing journalist was on a flight to Sichuan, followed by nine more.
Statistics from Sichuan showed in the first half this year, migrant workers who returned to Sichuan had set up more than 2, 000 businesses with a total revenue over ten billion yuan.
Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan.
In 2008 the authorities won praise from around the world for their quick response to the Sichuan earthquake and their unusual decision to give journalists free rein to visit the affected area.
She donated her Wimbledon prize money to the Sichuan earthquake relief fund and spent time helping the victims and reconstruction efforts.
The air is filled with the calls of the stallholders offering everything from the ubiquitous noodles to spicy Sichuan soup and Shangdong-style pancakes, deep-fried crickets and scorpions.
China's response to the Sichuan earthquake in May 2008 and the spectacular success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics were examples of how much China has progressed in this regard.
Since then, the only way to see a panda in the Sichuan province has been to visit the Chengdu Panda Reserve -- one of the most important international centres for panda research -- which provides a fantastic opportunity to get up close to the animals and watch them chomping down on bamboo and play fighting.
In an article on Tuesday in China Daily, reporter Chen Xin interviewed a 35 year old mechanic named Zhang Hongbo who reportedly returned to his hometown Nanchong in Sichuan province for Spring Festival and decided not to go back to his ten year job in Guangzhou, one of the three major Eastern cities.
Xie Lihua, editor of Rural Women Knowing All, an immensely successful magazine (fancy a readership of 50m-60m?), describes how she helped to rescue two readers from Sichuan province who had been kidnapped and married off to men in Guangdong.
We do see multitudes of youth taking part in causes, such as leaving school and work to volunteer in aid of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims, or volunteering to support the 2008 Beijing Olympics or the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
On Wednesday, GM announced that its year-long effort to close a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. was dead, and it would begin to wind down Hummer operations.
In 1985, primary school students sent a letter to the mayor of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, begging him to clean up the Fu and Nan Rivers that encircle the city.
The Qiang New Year Festival, held on the first day of the tenth lunar month, is an occasion for the Qiang people of China's Sichuan Province to offer thanks and worship to heaven for prosperity, reaffirm their harmonious and respectful relationship with nature, and promote social and family harmony.
Haier is perhaps best known for the story of how, in the mid-1990s, they unexpectedly recognized the use of their washing machines by peasants in Sichuan province to make their fruits and vegetables more attractive for the newly emerging free markets, and then developed softer agitators to deliver on that need.
In his youth, Du was a student of music and drawing, and in 1986 went on to study and teach painting at the Southwest Art School in Sichuan, where he remains to this day.
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Lushan, where the quake struck, is home to 1.5 million people where the fertile Sichuan plain meets foothills that eventually rise to the Tibetan plateau.
The other market in focus on Monday was China, where stocks were reacting to an earthquake that hit Sichuan province over the weekend.
Chinese stocks were also reacting to an earthquake that hit Sichuan province over the weekend, with gains in companies that could benefit from reconstruction spending.
Chinese troops have repaired a dam cracked in this week's earthquake, but officials remain concerned about the damage to reservoirs in the devastated Sichuan province.
The Chinese government sent about 2, 000 soldiers to make the repairs to Zipingku Dam on Wednesday, fearing that it might collapse and flood the hard-hit city of Dujiangyan, according to a statement on the Sichuan government Web site.
As people across China's Sichuan province continue to rebuild their lives one year after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake leveled some towns and cities, the region's famed giant pandas are still struggling due to the devastation wreaked by the deadly temblor.
The worst water shortage in more than a century has hit the country's southwest, in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces in addition to Yunnan and Guangxi.
"I love to eat it, especially cooked Sichuan style, " he says.
The death toll from a massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province was expected to soar Tuesday, as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried beneath rubble and debris.
He has had a solid success on his second trip to the plate as the founder and CEO of online game accelerator Sichuan Xunyou Network Technology, a company that supports up to 4, 000 online games in an online game market that has spawned billionaires such as Chen Tianqiao of Shanda Games, Ma Huateng of Tencent and William Ding of Netease.
Liu made money early in his career by working with his three brothers to sell quail and feed in rural Sichuan Province.
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Like so many families of Sichuan orphans, they refuse to put them up for adoption but do not have the means to care for them, either.
When a text message informed her that a powerful earthquake had struck the province of Sichuan, she leaned over to the man next to her, a veteran editor named Qian Gang, who had covered previous quakes, and asked him for a rough prediction of the damage.
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