【正】Up to 12:00, May 31, the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that jolted Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province had left 68,977 people dead, 367,854 injured and 17,974 missing. The total number of people affected by the earthquake reached 45,547,565. The earthquake brought grave damages to the infrastructural facilities, cutting off road communications and electricity and water supplies and leveling almost all the buildings in the affected areas. This is the biggest casualty China has suffered in the past 30 years since reform and opening up.