This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
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Inside China: Sichuan earthquake, 10 years on

  • A decade on, we return to the scene of one of China's worst natural disasters.

Topic |   Sichuan earthquake, 10 years on
Mimi LauJarrod Watt
Mimi Lau , Jarrod Watt and James Legge

Updated: 7:46pm, 19 Dec, 2018

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This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
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