Police have cordoned off the road running up to the slaughterhouse in rural northeast China where the death toll climbed to 120 in a fire early on Monday morning.
For more than two decades, the Chinese economy has been growing at a spectacular rate.
On Tuesday morning, Wang Shunwen was standing outside the gates of Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co, waiting for news of his daughter.
Xue Qianchun, 35, carefully used a chef's knife to chop bell peppers and onions. After that, she put some ginger into a food processor and reduced the spice to powder.
Wushitala township in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is only able to thrive because it is next to the Malan military base.
Most Chinese are familiar with the old saying "Daughters should be brought up in rich surroundings", but spending 10,000 yuan ($1,630) a day to study etiquette is still beyond many people's imaginations.
The theft and sale of personal information taken from the Internet and mobile devices has prompted calls for tougher laws, as Hu Yongqi reports from Beijing.
As smartphones have gained popularity in China, privacy concerns have shifted from calls to the mobile Internet. About 420 million people in China had surfed the Internet via a mobile phone by the end of 2012, according to the China Internet Network Center.
Song Qing's was woken by her alarm clock at 3 am on a bitterly cold December morning in 2012. The recently retired 57-year-old cocooned herself in a thick down coat and traveled across Beijing to sign up for a calligraphy and painting class at Beijing Haidian University for Seniors, or BHUS. She arrived at the school at 4:15 am, ready for the start of enrollment at 7:30 am.
Li Jing used to get on well with her parents. Whenever friends or colleagues asked for her secret, she always replied that obeying her parents' wishes and helping to keep them cheerful were her best tactics.
Editor's note: Zhang Yong, a freelance writer from Hanzhong city, Shaanxi province.
Hotan prefecture in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is famous for two things: jade and sand. The locals still try to pluck the precious stones from the dry bed of the Yurungkash River, also known as the White Jade River, but the rising value of jade means the place has almost been picked clean after repeated treasure hunts, so the chances of making new discoveries are slim. However, in this area bordering the Taklimakan, the world's second-largest desert, the sand will never disappear.
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