Osiers beside a river in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, begin to sprout as the temperature reaches 20 degrees centigrade March 16, 2009. [Zhu Zheng/Xinhua]
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province at 2:28 PM on May 12.
![Osiers beside a river in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, begin to sprout as the temperature reaches 20 degrees centigrade March 16, 2009. [Zhu Zheng/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090317/000cf1a48b7f0b294a9008.jpg "Osiers beside a river in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, begin to sprout as the temperature reaches 20 degrees centigrade March 16, 2009. [Zhu Zheng/Xinhua]")
