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- We are compeers
Bahetiehan confirmed that the rate of compulsory education is always 100 percent, and that this occurred not only in his township but everywhere in Xinjiang. -
- Bows and arrows
In Xinjiang, peole of Xibe ethnic group total only 33,000, but their culture still flourishes. -
- Commuters switch on to electric power
China, the world's bicycle kingdom - one for every three inhabitants - is going electric. -
- The hide and soul of a wild horse
"It has been raining for eight hours. The ground is like a sponge and the horses are filthy," warned Zhang Hefan over the phone. -
- A life for a treasure
Zhou Ji has completely integrated into the Uyghur culture. He even ended up resembling the men of this ethnic group and, like most of them, wears the beard. -
- Lead poisoning highlights development dilemma
Madaokou villagers demand the closure of a smelter blamed for poisoning 615 children in Shaanxi Province. -
- Self-taught and humanist
In 1966, Liu Yulian, then 17 years old, arrived from Gansu with her father to settle in Erpu, a village of the Kumul Prefecture.