China's northwestern Gansu Province, one of the areas stricken by the May 12 earthquake, plans to complete reconstruction by the end of 2010, a top provincial official said.

Gansu would rebuild public facilities in the affected areas by the end of this year, including residential houses, schools and hospitals, and restore infrastructure in water conservation, telecommunications, power supply and transport, said Gansu Governor Xu Shousheng at a tele-conference on Friday.

The redesigned villages, rural houses, schools and hospitals would be put into use and commercial facilities and enterprises would be restored in 2009. The renovation of rural and county power grids and telecommunications facilities would be completed the same year, Xu said.

Highways, reservoirs at risk and public facilities would be fully recovered in 2010, he added.

The May 12 earthquake killed 364 people and injured 7,560 in Gansu, according to the latest statistics.

(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2008)