China's largest ever psychological service operation for survivors of natural disasters is in full swing in the rocked Sichuan Province.

　　Psychologists and volunteers from around the nation have reached almost every hospital in the quake-hit area, and are ready to serve the survivors.

　　CRI's Chen Xi reports from Mianyang city, where the most vulnerable in the disaster, the children, are slowly coming out of the gloom.

　　Reporter:

　　At a Mianyang city sports stadium where more than 20,000 survivors are being housed, dozens of children sketch their dream homes and schools on white drawing paper wrapped around two giant columns, symbols of the comfort that they so suddenly lost days ago.

　　On one panel, hundreds of pieces of brightly colored paper are scrawled with the words of these young victims. Words that can only hint of their broken inner worlds.

　　But these children have begun to cast off the blues by joining in on their familiar games under the close psychological care of professionals and volunteers.

　　A 9-year-old girl, Zhao Ziwei is one of them. She tells me about the meaning of her drawing.

　　"This is a child playing with a swing. And this is my dad, my mum and me sitting on the chair."

　　Among all the pictures of pure dreams for the future, one poignant（adj.令人痛苦的） drawing touches me the most. It is by a 7-year-old girl, and shows a two-dimensional（adj.两维的, 没有深度感觉的） school, followed dramatically by its collapse and scores of stick figures running away.

　　At Mianyang's Jiujiang Stadium, a group of volunteers from central China's Wuhan City have started therapy for the children by encouraging them to draw and write whatever they want.

　　A volunteer who refused to tell his name details the work going on in the stadium.

　　"For example; we have set up a small bookstall, which is of some benefit to the kids with infantile autism（n.[医]自闭症）. The kids here can create a picture with scissors or they can draw a sketch. They do influence each other. These works require persistent and long-term effort, especially during the latter phase."

　　The outside of the stadium and the inside halls are crowded with adults.

　　A psychologist with a local psychology research center in Sichuan is taking care of a special type of patient, who seems to have been somewhat ignored, a rescue worker.

　　"Many people come for consultation. But there was a soldier, who had been involved in rescue work that told me that he could not bear to see so many lives taken away in the disaster. After that, he began to talk to me everyday and he is feeling better now and is back to his work."

　　The expert says that not only the victims of the quake, but also the rescuers will need help to come to terms with what has taken place here.

　　Chen Xi, CRI News, Mianyang city, Sichuan Province