From Sichuan and the field reports, anecdotes of breathtaking and breathnecking reconstruction and rebuild work by Chinese masses of workers and volunteers have astonished many observers and reporters, foreign and Chinese.
During World War II, America's "greatest generation" of workers provided the prodigious tireless work in support of America's wartime industries and civilian support work.
This "can do" generation of wobblies and working Americans have since passed on and faded away; and in their place came the new American generation of slackers, the post-War baby-boomers, and now the X'ers and Y'ers.
But that "can do" spirit has been transferred to China onto Chinese workers who are now the new "work horses" in the post-Earthquake dazzling work to rebuild. The tasks are gargantuan..... just temporarily housing 5 million homeless and building temporary huts and tents, clearing the earthquake debris, providing power and utilities, and new village town, county, and city infrastructures and designing a coherent grid.
Three years is the ambitious timeline announced by the Chinese Central government and the provincial government for Sichuan to recover, and rebuild. And all Chinese are mobilizing and harnessing their energy and resources in unison to make it happen.
Just as an illustration, consider what James Areddy of the Wall Street Journal reported on how the telecommunications network of China Mobile, China's biggest telecommunications company servicing the country with wireless cellphones, have mobilized, reengineered, rehooked on and rebooted its broken telecommunications network; I don't think the new generation of Western workers, especially European and American "cannot do" work force, can do these work anymore on the timeline and schedule set by their Chinese counterparts :
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/05/22/getting-back-on-the-line-in-sichuan/
Consider further that this time around, the Sichuan Earthquake saw most of the Chinese masses of laobaizing galvanizing and working behind their government leaders, in particular impressed by its national leaders; read further:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302774.html
