It was the third train carrying the injured to reach Chongqing municipality. But it won't be the last. The trains carrying quake survivors have united the municipality with its parent province of Sichuan, from which it was carved out a decade ago. Yong Xiaorong, of Anxian county in Sichuan, could...
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