Zheng lays flowers at a monument in memory of people who lost their lives in the Wenchuan earthquake. [Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/China Daily] I was dozing off on a bus full of other tourists when ...

Major Sichuan earthquakes in recent times included the magnitude 8.0 disaster centred in Wenchuan in 2008, which killed hundreds of thousands and flattened entire villages, as well as two deadly ...