Shaky crossings to get updated
By Li Yingqing, An Baijie and Guo Anfei | China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-28 08:14
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On his way to a patient's home last year, Deng Qiandui, a doctor, gets across the Nujiang River by moving on a ropeway in Lamadi village of the Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province. Within the next three years, all 42 ropeways across the three main rivers in the prefecture will be replaced or reconstructed, local government officials said. Qin Qing / Xinhua |
KUNMING - People in the remote border regions of Yunnan province are to say goodbye to one of their traditional but more hazardous methods of travel.
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