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YUSHU, Qinghai Province, April 14-- Nine years after a catastrophic earthquake battered Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which killed thousands of people, new schools, hospitals and squares have mushroomed out of debris, and the locals are rebuilding their new life. Lodru Gyatso, 16, lost his father in the magnitude-7.1 quake, which hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai province on April 14, 2010 and left around 3,000 people dead or missing. "I was reading books in school when the quake struck," he said. "When I got back home, my brother told me our dad had been buried under the toppled house." Lodru Gyatso's mother passed away when he was young. He was admitted to a local orphan school after the quake. The school is now home to more than 460 students, many of whom lost their parents in the disaster. "After the earthquake, we have received many donations, which help to improve our infrastructure," said Nyima Rigzin, headmaster of the school. The school, humble with one-storey temporary houses, now has a classroom building, dormitory building, canteen and library. Lodru Gyatso likes to make robots in the classroom equipped with a 3D-printer. For 23-year-old Dawa Tsedin, takeout delivery is a bit boring. But it allows him to enjoy the beauty of Yushu's new cityscape, which has sprung up from a remote, backward town to a modern city over the past nine years. Dawa Tsedin chose to be a take-away food delivery man in Yushu after graduating from a vocational school in Xi'an, capital of neighboring Shaanxi Province. | 
