Graduate student has assignment in underground station
By Cheng Yingqi | China Daily | Updated: 2013-09-16 08:20
Li Shoujuan, 26, has a lonely and sometimes dangerous job.
From April to October, 9 am to 9 pm, Li, a researcher in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China's second-largest, monitors an electronic screen buried deep into the scorching earth.
She is finishing a thesis for her master's degree at the Fukang National Field Scientific Observation and Research Station.
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