" A citizen mourns for relatives killed in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in front of the Earthquake Monument in Tangshan Authentic Eric Bledsoe Jersey , north China's Hebei Province, July 28, 2016. In the early hours of July 28, 1976, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the city in Hebei Province, killing over 242,000 people. Local residents came to the Tangshan Earthquake Ruins Memorial Park and the Earthquake Monument to show love to their deceased family members and friends on Thursday. (XinhuaZhao Liang) TANGSHAN, Hebei Province, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Standing on the rubble of Tangshan 40 years ago Khris Middleton Jersey , orphan Zhang Dongyi saw his world collapse, and so did the city in northern China's Hebei Province.
Forty years later, Zhang, 54, is a senior technician with the Tangshan branch of the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (formerly the Tangshan rolling stock plant).
""The past four decades have changed a lot,"" he said.
""From destruction to prosperity, Tangshan is a miracle.""
The year 1976 was tragic for China. Three of its most venerable leaders, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De all died in the year. In the early hours of July 28 Giannis Antetokounmpo Jersey , one of the deadliest earthquakes of the 20th century razed the city of Tangshan, killing more than 240,000 people and injuring another 160,000.
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Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the disaster.
Zhang remembered being just a regular naughty boy before the quake, but then everything changed