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Quake site left alone to be tourist destination

"SHANGHAI (AFP) – Some of the ruins left by last year's massive earthquake in southwest China, including a collapsed school, will open to tourists later this month, state media reported Wednesday.
Tour groups will be able to go boating on a "quake lake" and visit a museum featuring an "earthquake simulation," the China Daily reported, citing officials in Beichuan county, where 80 percent of the buildings were levelled."