Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake

    BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Direct economic losses for the May12 Sichuan earthquake centered in Wenchuan County hit 845.1 billion yuan (about 121 billion U.S. dollars), an expert said hereon Thursday.

    The southwestern province of Sichuan suffered the worst, accounting for 91.3 percent of the total direct economic losses, according to Shi Peijun with the Wenchuan earthquake expert panel.

    Its neighboring provinces Gansu and Shaanxi accounted for 5.8 and 2.9 percent of the total losses, respectively.