A total of 5,335 students in Sichuan were dead or missing from May 12 earthquake, said Tu Wentao, head of the education department of the Sichuan province at a press conference Thursday morning.
Another 546 students were handicapped in the southwestern province, Tu said.
Thousands of schools collapsed in Sichuan in the magnitude 8.0 quake last May. Statistics from the Sichuan provincial education department showed that 3,340 schools needed to be rebuilt after the earthquake.
New houses are under construction in Qingchuan county, southwest China's Sichuan province Wednesday May 6, 2009. [Xinhua]
To date, construction of 46.2 percent of the damaged clinics and hospitals has started, Yu said, adding that the rebuilding work of 99 percent of basic public service facilities including clinics and hospitals across the province will be completed in two years.
Governments have helped nearly 1.3 million quake-affected people find new jobs, Yu said.
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