A strong quake has again brought huge losses to southeast China’s Sichuan Province, but the disaster is unlikely to undermine the economy in any great deal due to its scale, analysts said.
The 7.0-magnitude quake that struck Sichuan’s Ya’an City on Saturday morning has so far killed at least 193 people and injured more than 12,200 others, latest data from the provincial government showed.
“From what we have learnt from the region’s 2008 quake, economic impacts will be limited. Losses in local areas should not be blown up to a disaster for the whole economy,” said Wang Xiaoguang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Governance.
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