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Doctor is out collecting herbs
2011-09-16 07:02
Gathering herbs for traditional Chinese medicine nearly cost Long Xingchao his life.
Ballet dreams, better late than never
2011-09-14 10:05
Chen Rong, a 60-year-old member of the Jinan Elderly Ballet Team, rehearses for an upcoming performance in Jinan, capital city of East China's Shandong province on Sept 10, 2011.
Measuring West China with feet
2011-09-14 07:23
Looking like another blazing sun, Guo Jianhua stands in his fiery red uniform under the scorching sun to measure the sea level of a road near Urumqi county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Rural women’s lives enriched by co-ops
2011-09-13 13:52
In recent years, facing labor shortages caused by the migration of male labor to cities, the county mobilized 6,000 rural women to form 582 cooperatives and organized them to attend regular health seminars, various art performances and counseling programs to help make the women’s lives healthier and more fulfilling.
All she has left is words
2011-09-09 07:18
Unlike many dying patients, Wu Aiping looks peaceful and pleased in her final days, and she has left a precious gift to the person she cares most about in the world - her 18-year-old daughter.
Danger all in a day's work for engineer
2011-09-08 07:43
Zhou Xun has had to be careful of unexploded bombs in dozens of Afghan villages.
Home for disabled people
2011-09-06 19:06
Liqi Daycare Center is an institution for severely challenged people in Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong province, Aug 30, 2011.
Former university guard begins study
2011-09-05 09:58
Jia Zuosheng, 27-year-old freshman was accepted by the university this year after preparing through self-study and attending lectures during his time spent working as a library security guard at Tsinghua University.
A remote rural school for 5 pupils
2011-09-04 11:42
Suited on the top of the 800m Liujia Hill in one of the most distant regions in Wuhan, the primary school has survived the harshest conditions with support from the villagers.
Tibet's new railway to open in 2014
2011-09-02 20:36
The 253-kilometer Lhasa-Xigaze Railway, which will start operating in 2014, is expected to improve transportation in the southwestern part of Tibet.
The empty stools of rural village life in China
2011-09-02 13:27
In the process of urbanization, more rural people in China leave villages to work in cities with most working as migrant workers.
Rural students get free lunch in NW province
2011-08-30 21:26
About 20,000 students in Ningxia have been getting free lunch since Tuesday after the province began an assistance program covering nine counties for students in rural mountainous areas.

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