Quake zone residents welcome Lunar New Year, hoping better life 

Two locals select red lanterns for the imminent Spring Festival at Liangshui County of Longnan City, a quake-hit city of northwest China's Gansu Province, Jan. 23, 2009. Millions of quake zone residents in west China had made their paraperations to welcome the uupcoming Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    CHENGDU, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Red lanterns held high on poles before rows of temporary houses; the New Year pictures drawn on house walls; couplets conveying best wishes pasted on door panels - all signal the imminent arrival of Chinese New Year for millions of quake zone residents in Sichuan Province.

    The Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, is set to be a rather different holiday for the quake-affected families this year as many of them lost their homes and relatives in last May's earthquake. Full story

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