Qi acknowledged that officials had been forewarned that the quake zone, located mostly in the mountains of western China's Sichuan province near the Tibetan plateau, was a dangerous area.

此次地震灾区大部分位于中国西部省份四川靠近青藏高原的山区里。

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The riots in Lhasa of March 2008 and subsequent unrest across the Tibetan plateau triggered an anti-Western backlash online and in the media.

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