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For us, as the local relics protection bureau, it is our obligation to maintain it, repair it, protect it, this in order for the people to better enjoy it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION, Mr Zheng, Local Relics Protection bureau\u003cbr/\u003e24.Tilt down on workers using pillar to work on mortar\u003cbr/\u003e25.TCU of mortar being ground\u003cbr/\u003e26.WS worker cutting old jute bag\u003cbr/\u003e27.TCU of hand and axe cutting jute bag\u003cbr/\u003e28.TCU face of worker\u003cbr/\u003e29.Tilt from one worker to an other close to buddha head\u003cbr/\u003e30.MS buddha head and smile\u003cbr/\u003e31.SOUNDBITE:(Mandarin)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The renovation way we use is a traditional formula which is the same as the ancient Chinese people used to maintain the Buddha. It's out of the question for us to use modern material such as steel bars, concrete or things like that. 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\u003cbr/\u003eDifferent buddhas... different karmas!\u003cbr/\u003eWhile Afghanistan Taliban's destroyed some of the world's biggest Buddhas, in China, workers are busy giving a facelift to the world largest sitting Buddha statue.\u003cbr/\u003eAllegedly eighteen metres higher than their one time Bamiyan counterparts, the Leshan Giant\u003cbr/\u003eBuddha in China's southern province of Sichuan Province is 1200 years old.\u003cbr/\u003eCarved on a cliff face at the confluence of three rivers the Min River, Dadu River and Qingyi River, the spectacular project took 90 years to complete.\u003cbr/\u003eBegun in the year 713 AD the statue was finished in 803 AD.\u003cbr/\u003eThe work was initiated by a monk called Haitong who organized fundraising and hired workers.\u003cbr/\u003eSeventy one metres high in total, the Buddha's head is 15 metres, 10 metres in diameter, with 1021 hair rolls, one ear measures 7 metres, the nose 5.6 metres, whilst the eyes 3.3 meters each.\u003cbr/\u003eEach shoulder is 28 metres long.\u003cbr/\u003eOne foot is 8.5 metres wide and 11 metres long - enough to have a hundred people sitting on it.\u003cbr/\u003eEach hand is more than 10 metres long, the middle finger length is 8.3 metres.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Buddha overlooks the city of Leshan across the river and is popularly believed to have protected the city over the centuries.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's a miracle that it has never been destroyed or even damaged during China's troubled history.\u003cbr/\u003eThe last renovations done on the holy sculpture were only superficial, and dated back to 1994.\u003cbr/\u003eSince it was carved in the cliff, the Giant Buddha has been renovated partially six times.\u003cbr/\u003eBut these ones will be the most intensive and extensive the statue ever undertaken .\u003cbr/\u003eThe works will take place in different phases. \u003cbr/\u003eThe first phase, the facelift, is scheduled to be completed before May 1.\u003cbr/\u003eThe giant statue suffered heavily 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