Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake

    CHENGDU, July 4 (Xinhua) -- More than three quarters of the homeless quake survivors in China's southwestern Sichuan Province have moved into temporary homes, local government official said on Friday.

    As of Thursday, 1.64 million prefabricated homes had been erected to house more than 3 million of the 4 million or more homeless families, said provincial governor Jiang Jufeng at a teleconference on the quake homeless.

    However, 536,100 families were still living in tents, 400,800 in temporary shelters built with tarpaulins and 207,600 with relatives, said the official.

    The devastating quake on May 12 has left 69,186 people dead as of Friday and 18,385 missing nationwide. In Sichuan alone, the death toll reached 68,636, and more than 10 million were homeless.