China counts the economic cost of quake

Updated May 22, 2008 19:35:39

Beijing is estimating company losses at around ten billion dollars from China's quake and it has allocated around the same amount for the reconstruction effort.

Presenter: Emily Bourke
Speakers: Mark Thirlwell, director of the international economy program at the Lowy Institute; Richard Martin, managing director of International Market Assessment Asia; Dr Pradeep Taneja lecturer in Chinese politics at Melbourne University; David Goodman, Sydney's University of Technology.