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Special> Aftermath of the Quake> Beijing Review Exclusive
UPDATED: June 30, 2008 NO. 27 JUL. 3, 2008
Counting the Cost
The cost of the earthquake on Sichuan Province's industries reveals setbacks that will take years to recover
By LAN XINZHEN
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TOURISTS RETURN: Safety is the primary concern of tourists to Sichuan at present, though most of Sichuan’s scenic spots had resumed business by June 21

Sichuan's economy will need five to seven years to return to the level of prosperity it enjoyed before the earthquake struck, said Hou Shuiping, President of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences one month after the 8.0-magnitude earthquake shook the province.

The academy held a seminar on the earthquake's influence on Sichuan's economic and social development on June 12. The consensus of more than 100 experts and scholars was that the earthquake, having exerted a huge impact on the provincial economy, has resulted in direct economic losses of nearly 500 billion yuan ($71.4 billion) and that the Chengdu-Deyang-Mianyang economic belt, which is of primary importance to the province's economic development, has been severely damaged.

Agriculture devastated

The earthquake drowned and destroyed extensive farming areas, resulting in a drastic decline in farmland in Sichuan, said Liu Qing, a researcher with Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Frequent landslides have covered many fields with rocks, which affected their fertility and arability and reduced their productivity.

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