Yesterday morning, a giant panda 'Guo Guo' from Wolong Natural Reserve gave birth to twins in Sichuan Ya'an panda breeding base. Guo Guo became the world's first giant panda mother in 2008.
In Beijing's Cultural Palace of Nationalities, precious Qiang ethnic cultural relics from the quake-hit area - Beichuan County are on display. This is a free exhibition, which opened on June 15 and will last to June 30.
News from Sichuan Tourism Bureau says that from June 14, thirteen cities in Sichuan including Dazhou, Guang'an, Leshan, Liangshan, Luzhou, Meishan, Nanchong, Neijiang, Panzhihua, Suining, Yibin, Zigong and Ziyang will reopen to the tourist market. Meanwhile, Chengdu has partially opened its tourist market to the public.
According to the State Cultural Relic Bureau, some culture relics in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces including Xian Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Tianshui Maiji Caves have been slightly injured during the '5.12' Wenchuan Earthquake.
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has decided to postpone the Olympic Torch Relay within Sichuan Province until August 3 to 5 (original date June 15 to 18), in support of the relief work in the quake-hit areas.
It has been reported that so far more than half the resorts with ancient cultural relics within Sichuan Province have been damaged or ruined because of the 8.0-Richter-scale Wenchuan Earthquake. It is reported that the Mount Qingcheng-Dujiangyan Irrigation Project Scenic Area tops the list of sites most affected.
Yesterday's news from Sichuan Wolong National Natural Reserve was that three giant pandas living in the reserve zone are missing while five employees of the Wolong Administration Bureau have died in the Wenchuan earthquake.
According to the latest news from Sichuan Province, owing to the effects of the Wenchuan Earthquake, hotel reservations in twenty of Sichuan's cities and a city in Yunnan Province have been obliged to suspend all operations.
At 14:28 on May 12, 2008 (Beijing Time), a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter scale shook Wenchuan County (81 miles from Chengdu) in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Since the disaster areas are now in a very unstable condition, China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) immediately stopped visitors' traveling to or via those dangerous areas from May 12.
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