Industries in Dujiangyan city were booming before the massive earthquake hit. Now, many enterprises there have cleared away the rubble and getting back into business.

This was the office building of a food company in the Dujiangyan Tech and Industrial Park. It looks fine from the front, but now it's just a shell. Fortunately, no one was hurt in here when the quake struck.

"Only the structure of this building remains fine. All the walls must be pulled down and rebuilt. This building cost us 4 million yuan. The direct loss this time is at least 3 million."

But rebuilding the offices is at the bottom of Liuyanggou's recovery plan. Restarting production is management's top priority, and it's tough. For one of China's biggest jerky markets, only the smell of dried beef is left in the plant now. Workshop by workshop, the director tells us about their losses.

"This is our vacuum packaging workshop. People were working on the left side when the quake hit and the machines were on the right. The whole roof above the machines collapsed. The whole pipeline system in this workshop was destroyed. Products worth over 2 million yuan had to be thrown out. We transported the machines back to Chengdu on May 14th."

Recovery is underway. This workshop has been cleaned up and technicians are testing the electrical connection.

Interior decoration is now the least concern for this company, whose plant has been designed to pass the world's strictest quality tests.

In about two weeks' time Liuyanggou has restored key machines and workshops on its main production line, including the small tools of their own design, and expensive, precious ones.

"This machine is 25 meters long. That one is 18 meters. The two are worth more than 6 million yuan. Our core products are mainly made here, so we recover them first. If all goes well, they can be back to work in 15 days. Now we need to fix the underground grids and sterilization system. The two machines were on their side after the quake and their motors were burnt."

Rebuilding the canteen is another priority. The management says feeding the workers is more important than fixing machines.

The massive quake hit every company in this industrial zone. We've been told that some small businesses here have to give up because they can't afford to rebuild, as their capital was knocked down to zero. But those which are still standing have decided to recover as soon as possible, with preferential policies already in place.

"The earthquake has caused losses of 2.1 billion yuan in this tech and industrial park. Businesses here lost 1.5 billion yuan and the rest is in infrastructure. So far, 16 enterprises have fully or partially recovered production. Now, we are in talks with the Shanghai Municipal Government to help us build a platform, which can turn their help from 'blood-transfusion' style into a 'blood-making' ability of our own."

On these rough lands, the road towards full recovery remains tough, but we've witnessed people's determination to prosper again.

(CCTV June 4, 2008)