“Yingxiu mother” as agent of community development

Natural disasters have become a normal feature of China, even of the world. On May 12, 2008, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan province, a mountainous region in western China, in which nearly 70,000 people died, 18,000 went missing, and which affected over 15 million people. Where physical infrastructures were concerned, 21 million buildings were damaged and 7,000 schools destroyed.