- Title: CHINA: 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE
- Date: 1st July 1996
- Summary: TANGSHAN, HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA (RECENT) (RTV) (NATURAL) 1. MVS 62-YEAR-OLD EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR, LI YULIN WALKING THROUGH RUBBLE FROM JULY 1976 EARTHQUAKE (2 SHOTS) 0.20 2. GV TRACKING SHOT OF BUILDINGS RESTROYED IN EARTHQUAKE 0.27 (FILE - JULY 1976) (CCTV) (MUTE) (MONO) 3. GVS CHINESE NAVY TROOPS RUNNING AT START OF RESCUE EFFORTS, DIGGING IN RUBBLE (3 SHOTS) 0.45 4. MVS RESCUE WORKERS WITH SURVIVOR ON STRETCHER, PULLING OUT VICTIM FROM RUBBLE (2 SHOTS) 0.52 5. GVS COLLAPSED AND DAMAGED BUILDINGS (2 SHOTS) 1.05 (RECENT) (RTV) 6. CU LI SAYING "IF SOMEONE, NO MATTER WHO, EMERGED ALIVE FROM THE RUBBLE, THEY WOULD RESCUE PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOUTING FOR HELP, BEFORE DIGGING FOR FAMILY MEMBERS. AND WHEN THE ARMY ARRIVED, PEOPLE WHO WERE BURIED IN THE SHALLOW LAYER OF RUBBLE HAD ALREADY BEEN RESCUED." (MANDARIN) 1.35 (FILE - JULY 1976) (CCTV) (MUTE) (MONO) 7. TRACKING SHOTS BODIES, WRAPPED IN MATS, LYING BY ROAD/ RUBBLE FROM COLLAPSED BUILDINGS (2 SHOTS) 1.49 (RECENT) (RTV) 8. CU LI SAYING "THERE WERE FALLEN ELECTRICITY PYLONS AND TREES AND BODIES AND SERIOUSLY INJURED PEOPLE BLOCKING THE ROAD. THE CAR COULD ONLY PASS IF PEOPLE CLEARED THE ROAD. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT PEOPLE WERE VERY COOPERATIVE AND UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ALL FIRMLY BELIEVED THAT TANGSHAN WOULD BE SAVED IF CHAIRMAN MAO AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT KNEW TANGSHAN HAD BEEN HIT BY AN EARTHQUAKE" (MANDARIN) 2.18 9. TRACKING SHOT REBUILT CITY STREET 2.27 10. GV/MV WOMEN KNITTING OUTSIDE NEWLY BUILT HOUSES(2 SHOTS) 2.36 11. MV/GV CHILDREN OUTSIDE NEWLY BUILT HOMES (2 SHOTS) 2.43 12. MVS PEOPLE PLAYING BOARD GAME (3 SHOTS) 2.55 13. CU YANG ZU AI, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, SAYING: "THESE BUILDINGS ARE DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND A FACTOR 8 EARTHQUAKE. THEY SHOULD NOT BE SERIOUSLY AFFECTED BY AN EARTHQUAKE MEASURING LESS THAN 8 ON THE RICHTER SCALE. AT MOST THEY WOULD HAVE LITTLE CRACKS." (MANDARIN) 3.10 14. GV BLOCKS OF FLATS 3.15 15. GV PAN/GV PEOPLE EATING IN OPEN AIR RESTAURANTS NEXT TO MOUND WITH PAGODA, WHERE THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS OF 1976 QUAKE WERE BURIED IN MASS GRAVE (2 SHOTS) 3.28 16. CU PAN AIGUO, FRUIT SELLER IN TANGSHAN, SAYING: "ITS AN ARTIFICIAL HILL" (MANDARIN) PAN ASKED WHY IT WAS ERECTED, AND HE REPLIES: "BECAUSE A LOT OF BODIES FROM THE TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE WERE PILED HERE" (MANDARIN) 3.43 17. GVS CHINESE TOURISTS VISITING BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE (3 SHOTS) 4.05 18. GVS RUBBLE FROM COLLAPSED BUILDINGS (3 SHOTS) 4.16 19. MV MONUMENT 4.21 20. GV BICYCLE RUSH HOUR 4.31 21. GV MONUMENT TO THE 240,000 VICTIMS OF THE TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE 4.37 22. CUS CARVINGS OF VICTIMS ON MONUMENT (3 SHOTS) 4.49 23. CU MA QANG, 25-YEAR-OLD TANGSHAN RESIDENT, WHO EXPERIENCED THE QUAKE, SAYING "MY BROTHER AND SISTER LIVED IN SEPERATE LIVING QUARTERS. THEY WERE BURIED BY THE EARTHQUAKE AND NEIGHBOURS TRIED THEIR BEST TO DIG THEM OUT IN TIME BUT THEY WERE ALREADY DEAD." (MANDARIN) 5.08 (FILE - JULY 1976) (CCTV) (MUTE) (MONO) 24. AERIALS OF TANGSHAN, SHOWING CITY RAZED TO THE GROUND BY EARTHQUAKE (4 SHOTS) 5.34 BEIJING (FILE - SEPTEMBER 1976) (CCTV) (MUTE) 25. SV MAN READING ABOUT DEATH OF CHAIRMAN MAO ZEDONG 5.37 26. GVS MOURNERS PAYING LAST RESPECT TO MAO'S BODY, LYING IN STATE (4 SHOTS) 5.54 SHANGHAI (FILE - FEBRUARY 1974) (CCTV) 25. MVS CHINA'S PARAMOUNT LEADER DENG XIAOPING (3 SHOTS) 6.09 TANGSHAN (RECENT) (RTV) 26. GV SKELETON OF BUILDING DESTROYED IN EARTHQUAKE 6.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: TANGSHAN, HEBEI PROVINCE/ BEIJING AND SHANGHAI, CHINA
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