Products Name----------------- 'The Quake'

Production Country------------ China

Theme Type--------------------- Documentary

Episode Volume---------------- 10

Episode Length---------------- 30 min

Completed Date--------------- 2006

Synopsis:

It was the most drastic earthquake ever occurred in the past 400 years of the world’s history, causing a death toll of 240 thousand. In July ,1976, the city of Tangshan in North China turned into a ruin merely within 13 seconds.

Just ten years after the earthquake, a new Tangshan emerged out of the ruins. What contributed to its miraculous reconstruction? More remarkably though, the year 1976 turned out to be a turning point in Chinese history. From then on, a fundamental quake of the social economy has been kicked off and China has started the age of fast development.