It was late September and the breathtaking scenery dyed in boundless golden color spread across the Greater Hinggan Mountains in the far northeastern district of Hulunbuir in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
According to China's sixth national census, conducted in 2010, there are 30,875 ethnic Ewenki living in the country, compared with their 37,000-odd counterparts in Russia.
I had been eagerly looking forward to the interview for months, ever since I read the novel Right Bank of Ergun River by Chi Zijian, which won one of China's highest literary awards, the Mao Dun Literature Prize, in 2008. This mesmerizing Ewenki epic aroused my interest in the Aoluguya living deep in the Greater Hinggan Mountains.
For years, journalist Chen Baocheng wrote about other people's lives, covering stories on the judiciary and law enforcement issues.
1991: The first law relating to demolitions in cities is enacted. It mainly targets old and shabby dwellings in a bid to improve housing conditions and leads to very little conflict.
Lei Jie rappelled down a line from a helicopter to reach a fisherman who was floating in the ocean, but he was unable to get close enough.
When Peace Ark was called upon to join the rescue mission, the hospital ship was on its way back to Zhejiang province after a four-month cruise around South Asia.
Eight years have passed since Zuo Lei arrived in Beijing after graduating from a college in Shandong province. Working as a director at a TV station in late 2012, the 31-year-old made a difficult decision. He quit his job and became a full-time writer on a professional online literature platform that specializes in voluminous novels updated daily.
Knocked out at a speed of 5,000 to 10,000 characters a day, without editing, the stories on professional online literature platforms have been the subject of rigorous criticism, especially their poor language and illogical plotting. Now, online writers are trying to improve their creations through extensive reading.
I believe that the works on professional online literature platforms are completely market-oriented commercial creations, so there's no need for them to reach the high levels of serious literature, like the works of Lu Xun, the leading figure in modern Chinese literature.
A growing trend of belief in superstition and religion among some members of the Communist Party of China is a dangerous phenomenon and a "betrayal of the public interest", Chinese political experts have warned. The media has exposed several officials - some of whom have been found guilty of massive corruption - who frequently visited fortune-tellers or based their decisions on horoscopes.
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