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Chinese media keeps its eye on Yushu as the relief effort continuesPosted by Joel Martinsen on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Hu Jintao is on the cover of practically all of today's mainland papers. Many editors chose to run a photo of the president consoling an ethnic Tibetan girl during a hospital visit in Yushu, the county in Qinghai Province that was hit with an earthquake on April 14. Some papers even gave her a name, Dolma (卓玛). Other papers, such as the Jianghuai Morning News, went with a slogan Hu wrote on the blackboard of a school for orphaned students: "There will be new schools! There will be new homes!" (新学校,会有的!新家园,会有的!) The Hefei-based newspaper has been particularly zealous in its coverage of the earthquake. Saturday's edition (a slim 16 pages), which was entirely devoted to disaster reporting, employed a spin on a familiar headline:
The theme continued on Sunday with the headline, "The Whole City Is From Yushu." Today's paper reported that Saturday's charity issue resulted in a donation of 13,546.6 yuan. Links and Sources
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