The media called Li Qingsong's rescue a "miracle." He was pulled out unscathed from under the rubble after more than 104 hours. A week after his brush with death, the 20-year-old decided it was time to repay his saviors, and joined the relief work as a volunteer.

Xue Xiao, a quake survivor, is better known to most Chinese by another name - Cola Boy.

China.org.cn correspondents David Ferguson and Keen Zhang continue their journey around the deadly earthquake zones in Sichuan Province.

Hu Chengxi's hometown of Santai is located very close to Beichuan, the epicenter of the massive May 12 quake. Hu himself was in Finland when disaster struck, but he too was naturally deeply shocked and devastated by the destruction caused by the quake, which reduced entire villages to mere rubble.

Tens of thousands of families across China, eager to show their love, have overwhelmed local civil affairs authorities with telephone calls asking to adopt those orphaned by the worst earthquake since the founding of New China in 1949.

A homeless beggar in his 60s and a middle-aged shoeshine woman have come to epitomize people's selflessness in supporting the victims of the Sichuan earthquake.

Rescuers on Wednesday extricated a woman who had been trapped in a tunnel in a hydropower plant construction site for nine days since the May 12 earthquake in southwest China.

Zhang Youlu was nine years old when his parents died in the devastating earthquake in Tangshan, in northern China's Hebei Province, in 1976.

On May 19, at 2:28 pm, China came to a standstill. This nation of 1.3 billion people marked the exact time that an 8.0-magnitude quake struck Wenchuan County in Sichuan province with three minutes of silence.

China.org.cn correspondent David Ferguson traveled to Sichuan to report from the site of last week's massive earthquake. "Preparing to leave for Sichuan, I feel like I am being sent into a war zone," Ferguson writes.