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County bosses set up HQ in hotel

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Survivors of Beichuan government regroup and vow name will not vanish

Tucked away in a small lane off the main street among several closed grocery shops in Anchang town, An county, is the Tianlong, or Sky Dragon, hotel.

Like any other two-star hotel in any other remote town in the country, it has a garish, gold-tinted facade, but inside it is damp, worn and somewhat nicotine stained.

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But Sky Dragon is not just any hotel. It is accommodating the Communist Party Central Committee and the People's Government of Beichuan County - the hardest-hit area of the Sichuan quake.

After a brief 'opening ceremony' yesterday morning, Pu Fangfang, the county's deputy party chief, promised survivors - most of whom are now living in tents - that Beichuan would be reborn.

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'The central government cares a great deal about Beichuan,' Mr Pu said. 'It has ordered that a new Beichuan must be built within three years.'

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