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FORTY-FIVE giant pandas have been born in acenter within the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's SichuanProvince in the five years since a massive earthquake wreaked havoc on thearea, according to officials. 自汶川大地震造成破坏以来的5年内，四十五只大熊猫出生在中国西南的四川省卧龙国家级自然保护区中心，根据有关部门。 The 8.0-magnitude quake happened on May 12,2008 and the death toll is estimated to have exceeded 80,000. 那次8.0级地震发生在2008年5月12日，死亡人数估计超过8万。 It also terrified Wolong's giant pandas anddamaged their facilities, though breeding of the animals continued at the ChinaGiant Panda Protection and Research Center. 它也吓坏了卧龙大熊猫，损害了他们的设施，但大熊猫的繁殖在中国大熊猫保护和研究中心继续着。 The number of births has slowed to lessthan 10 each year from more than a dozen before the quake, as the center hasfocused on the quality of each panda born, Zhang Hemin, the center's director,said before the fifth anniversary of the natural disaster. 大地震之前的过去十几年，每年出生的大熊猫不到10只，正如中心一直注重出生的每只熊猫的质量，该中心主任张和民在汶川地震五周年之前说。 "We seek to breed from the bestpairs," explained Zhang. “我们寻求从最好的熊猫配对中繁殖品种，”张解释道。 | 
