国内英语新闻:Chinese head for home in disaster-shadowed festival

However, not everybody could return their home for the festival.

A survey by China's portal website of Sohu showed that 40 percent of the respondents wouldn't celebrate the holiday at hometown.

Tsega Tashi, A Tibetan student who is studying in the engineering vocational school of Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu Province, received two boxes of mooncakes from his teacher.

At a festival party in the school Saturday, he and other Tibetan students presented Hada (a greeting gift made of silk) to their teachers. "They took care of us like parents," Tashi said.

In two years, the school has received 131 Tibetan students.

For many people who couldn't go back home, their distances from relatives were shortened by the Internet.

Zhang Bowu, a girl from east China's Anhui Province who is studying in the George Washington University, chatted with her parents and friends online while taking a bite into a mooncake she bought in local supermarket.

"I will watch the festival gala online together with my parents," she said. "It makes me feel that I were with them."

It has been the seventh year for Han Li, from northeast China, to celebrate the Mid-autumn Festival on her own. But this year, she bought her parents a computer with webcam.

"We could talk and see each other in the computer," she said. "We are under the same moon."