In Chenjia Village in Yunnan Province, about a dozen women were busy cooking at a temporary camp, washing and chopping up vegetables, stir-frying them in a pot on a small pile of charcoal while rice simmered in another pot.
They were preparing lunch for the entire village that had moved to the site after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area on the night of May 21. There were 15 tents altogether for a total of 67 residents, with one tent for each household. Soon, lunch was ready, cooked with rice, oil and other ingredients provided by the government as relief measures.