On May 20th, officials of the Department of Rural Science and Technology and China Rural Technology Development Center, MOST together with the experts from the China Architecture Design & Research Group, the China Institute of Building Standard Design & Research and Tongji University, went to the earthquake stricken areas in Sichuan for the demonstration housing project. According to the requirements proposed by Sichuan Department of Science and Technology, the demonstration project involves the building of 3,000 m2 demonstration houses in the counties of Chengdu, Mianyang and Deyang city, about 1,000 m2 each.