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After the disaster, social media circulated claims that China's building of border "moderately prosperous villages" (xiaokang villages) in high Himalayan regions and mountain-cutting and slope-slicing projects near Gyirong damaged the ecology, triggered an avalanche and caused flash floods. An account focusing on investigative reporting in Nepal, Nepal Correspondence, called this a "deliberate ecological disaster"; there is no solid evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, disaster videos within China were quickly deleted.