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Xiangxi; The Mountain Village that Changed How China Fights Poverty

Shi Chengfu's courtyard became, on 3 November 2013, the exact spot where President Xi Jinping first used the phrase "targeted poverty alleviation" during a visit to Shibadong, a Miao village in Huayuan county, a phrase that went on to...

Changsha; 2,000 Years of History behind China’s Loudest Party City

Surgeons who first examined Lady Xin Zhui's body in 1972 found her joints still movable, her skin elastic, and her blood group identifiable, some 2,100 years after her burial in a tomb northeast of modern Changsha, at Mawangdui. 一九七二年,医护人员首次对辛追夫人的遗体进行检验时发现,历经两千一百年,她的关节依然可以活动,皮肤仍富有弹性,甚至连血型都能辨识,而她的墓葬,就位于今日长沙城东北的马王堆。 Her tomb...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

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US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

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