The reconstruction of parts of southwest China's Sichuan province hit by the 2008 earthquake has been completed, the vice governor of Sichuan Province announced on Friday.

A corner of Muyu Middle School of Qingchuan County in 2008 (L) and in 2011 (R). [Photo by Chen Xiangzhao]

Wei Hong, also the director of the provincial post-quake reconstruction committee office, made the remarks at a press conference ahead of China's annual sessions.

Wei said that 99.5 percent of the budget, 865.8 billion yuan (137.5 billion U.S. dollars), has been invested in post-quake reconstruction, with 99 percent of 29,692 projects finished.

A devastating quake hit Sichuan and the neighboring Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in May 2008, leaving more than 80,000 people dead or missing and millions of houses collapsed.

"The unfinished projects are those affected by after-shocks and secondary disasters, which need long-term construction and huge quantities of work," Wei said. "We are making efforts to promote the left projects."