Yang Jia, right, hands food to a child at a prefabricated shelter in Longtoushan town on Wednesday. The veteran soldier from Yunnan's neighboring province Guizhou went to quake-hit Yunnan as a volunteer for relief work. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/chinadaily.com.cn]

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