BEIJING, March 24 -- Disaster-stricken Dujiangyan city in Sichuan province is sending hundreds of thousands of thank you notes to volunteers and benefactors who helped out following last year's May 12th earthquake.

    Card recipients will also enjoy free entrance and VIP service at all the city's attactions, including the ancient Dujiangyan Irrigation System. The system attracts more than a million visitors each year.

    Soundbite: Zhang Zhongsheng, Vice director of Dujiangyan Tourism Marketing Department

    We have no better means to show our gratitude, so we use our tourism resources as a present, we make the Gratitude Cards. We send them to our benefactors, to show our gratitude in our heart. We also recognized that there are many of our benefactors not received our gratitude cards, we will remember their kindness in our hearts forever.

    So far, Dujiangyan officials have sent thirty-thousand cards to Guangdong province.

    Dujiangyan's irrigation system was built 2,000 years ago. It is still in use today and delivers water to more than 5,000 square kilometers of land in the region.

    Although the project itself suffered little damage in the 8.0 quake, many of its tourist facilities were destroyed.Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dujiangyan.

    (Source: XHTV)