Earthquake anniversary in China

In a cemetery in Qingchuan County, a mother and grandmother mourn for their child who died at a school in the May 12, 2008 earthquake.

Mourners gather by a marble monument after a memorial ceremony to mark the first anniversary of Sichuan earthquake in the epicenter of Yingxiu town in Wenchuan in southwest China's Sichuan province. The earthquake in 2008 left over 90,000 killed or missing.

A mother cries while she mourns her dead daughter Xiang Yazi (left in picture) at the ruins in Beichuan county, Sichuan Province. Mourners crowded ruins in southwest China on Tuesday to mark one year since an earthquake shattered the region, while President Hu Jintao called reconstruction efforts a testament to national strength.

A woman places a flower in the devastated town of Beichuan in China's earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province on Monday. A year after the Sichuan earthquake devastated huge parts of southwest China, the grief and desperation of the tragedy still haunts the survivors of the magnitude 8.0 temblor.

Former residents of the quake devastated town of Beichuan walk past a mass grave covered with grass and decorated with flowers to form the numbers 5.12.

An elderly Chinese woman cries as she arrives in Beichuan to prepare for the first anniversary of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan earthquake where 87,000 people were left dead or missing and five million others homeless.

Students visit an area where landslides completely buried a village and more than 780 people. The site is now called the Donghekou Earthquake Site Park, a memorial to Sichuan earthquake victims.

A man grieves in Beichuan.

Kindergartners and their teachers look at quake-devastated Mianyang, a city in Sichuan province.

Liu Xia, head of a kindergarten where at least 300 children were killed during last year's Sichuan earthquake, mourns for the dead.

A Chinese man mourns the victims of the May 12, 2008, earthquake in Konghekou, a village in Sichuan province.