This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
Sichuan earthquake, 10 years on
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Inside China: Sichuan earthquake, 10 years on

  • A decade on, we return to the scene of one of China's worst natural disasters.

Mimi LauJarrod Watt
Mimi Lau Jarrod Watt and James Legge

Updated: 7:46pm, 19 Dec, 2018

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This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP
This picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows the destroyed Xuankou Middle School, the memorial site for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Yingxiu near Beichuan in Sichuan province. The city of Beichuan has been kept frozen in time since May 12, 2008, when a 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed 80,000 people across Sichuan province. Photo: AFP

South China Morning Post reports on the scene of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake upon the tenth anniversary of one of China's worst natural disasters.

Presenter: Mimi Lau

Voices: Bong Miquiabas, Naomi Ng, Alan Wong

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Producers: Jarrod Watt, James Legge

Mimi Lau

Mimi Lau

Mimi Lau is a former SCMP correspondent. She spent seven years in southern China as Guangzhou correspondent and has won numerous awards for her work. She left the SCMP in 2022 and has been teaching journalism in local universities.

Jarrod Watt

Jarrod Watt

Jarrod Watt joined the Post in 2015 after more than a decade working as a multi-platform reporter and editor with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, creating video, radio and text stories. He currently produces podcasts and video, as well as developing new digital storytelling methods, including augmented reality and 360 interactive photography.

James Legge

James Legge

James Legge is a former sub-editor on the Post's Hong Kong desk. Before that, he was a reporter and editor in the UK and a freelance reporter in Hong Kong.