STORY: China's Gansu steps up efforts to build prefab houses for quake-affected people
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 24, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 26, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:59
LOCATION: JISHISHAN, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of views in Jishishan
2. various of prefab houses for quake-affected people
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): NI PENGZHOU, Staff, Gansu Third Construction Group Co., Ltd.
4. various of prefab houses for quake-affected people

STORYLINE:

Construction workers have been stepping up efforts to build prefabricated houses in northwest China's Gansu Province so that residents impacted by a recent 6.2-magnitude earthquake can move from tents to warmer structures for the winter.

According to the housing and urban-rural development bureau of the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, a total of 12,000 prefab houses will be built by Wednesday.

The massive earthquake jolted parts of Gansu Monday last week.

In Bonan-Dongxiang-Salar Autonomous County of Jishishan in Linxia, 117 have been killed and 781 injured, and almost 15,000 houses have been toppled.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): NI PENGZHOU, Staff, Gansu Third Construction Group Co., Ltd.
"We're constructing the second batch of the prefab houses. We now have 80 workers here."

By 9 p.m. Saturday, more than 3,500 had already been completed.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jishishan, China.
(XHTV)