As early as August 2009, 16 schools with seismic resistance capability to absorb quakes up to a magnitude of 8.0 were completed and put in use with the help of aid partner Guangdong Province. The 14,000 Wenchuan children who had been sent to various places across the country to continue schooling after the quake were able to return to their hometown. By May 2010, 2,800 Wenchuan families had moved into the new, seismic resistant homes in the Sunshine Homes Community, another project assisted by Guangdong. The Qiang style housing also marks the completion of all 333 projects stemming from the earthquake.

"Not only in Wenchuan, but most projects concerning people's livelihoods in affected regions finished roughly two years after the earthquake," said Qin Bin, Director of the Emergency Coordination and Security Division of the Economic Construction Department, the Ministry of Finance. "This is of great credit to the strong financial and technical support received."

Soon after the disaster, the government rapidly allocated reconstruction funds of 300 billion yuan ($45.9 billion) and established a paired assistance program requiring that 19 provinces or municipalities, including Beijing, Shandong and Guangdong, provide at least 1 percent of their annual fiscal revenue to the 24 counties severely hit by the Wenchuan Earthquake for three years. By March 2011, the total aid from the donor provinces or municipalities exceeded 72 billion yuan ($11 billion).