Rebuilding Nepalese villages four years after deadly earthquake

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Four years after a 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal in 2015, the country continues to recover.

Chinese companies have finished six of its 25 disaster recovery projects to help the country rebuild its infrastructure.

One of the six finished one is a dry port constructed by China Railway Fourteenth Bureau.

The entire project took the Chinese firm a year and some 20 million U.S. dollars. Although it is a Chinese firm, 90 percent of the construction team are Nepalese workers. Thirty-nine-year-old truck driver Dasangbu Sherpa is one of them.

“Since I started working again, financial pressure has become a lot less,” said Dasangbu Sherpa, who has three kids and two of them are in school.

The dry port is said to provide work, housing, and warehouses for Nepalese border personnel such as frontier inspection and custom.

Yet these are not easy jobs.

“The project moved along during the local rainy season, which affected us a lot. The road outside is called the Anigo Highway. Rain would often destroy the roadbed and traffic would be gridlocked,” said Hua Zhandong, the chief engineer for the dry port project.