It's not a good idea to take a walk around the field hospital at night. The excess water brought by the typhoon has turned the farmland around the hospital into a swamp. The cracked sidewalks of the only passable road are littered with holes, some so deep that they are death traps. Snakes, toads and other mysterious creatures startled by my flashlight, slithered, hopped or scurried away around my feet.
The world loves pandas. The enigmatic, retiring beasts have become a global symbol of international friendship since China first began sending them as gifts to foreign countries in the 1950s.
When Shi Quan arrived in Fengyang, Anhui province in 2006, he immediately sensed a business opportunity.
Statistics from Henan's agriculture department show that by the end of November, the rights to some 188 hectares - 29 percent of the arable land in the province - had been transferred. The province has 65,000 farming cooperatives and more than 15,500 independent producers with large production volumes.
China will improve the mechanism for coordinating urban and rural development, to allow farmers to share the fruits of modernization.
The launch of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe early on Monday morning attracted worldwide attention, with the European Space Agency and a number of academics in the United States predicting that the mission will bring new advances and closer cooperation.
To most Chinese, the moon will not drive you crazy. Rather, it is the realization, buttressed with high-resolution photos taken by satellites and rovers, that the moonscape looks just like a desert, that is an absolute wet blanket on the romanticism associated with the Earth's natural satellite.
Witnessing the Long March-3B rocket blast off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and seeing the scientists and technicians hugging each other was a truly emotional moment.
The Chang'e-3 lunar probe comprises a lander and a moon rover. The rover was named Yutu, "Jade Rabbit", via an online poll. In ancient folklore, Chang'e was a moon goddess who swallowed immortality pills and then flew from the earth to the moon. Yutu was a pet rabbit that kept the goddess company in her cold, lonely lunar palace.
If you mention air pollution in Baiyin, the locals are always happy to relate a famous local story. In the 1990s, a man spent his entire month's salary on a Phoenix bike, one of the most popular brands in China at the time. After riding his new pride and joy to work, the man locked his bike and left it outside the factory. A little later, a rainstorm hit the area. At the end of his shift, when the man went to fetch his new bike, he was unable to find it because the high acid content in the rain had dissolved the paint on the frame, leaving his new bike looking as pitted and worn as all the others in the rack.
The process of upgrading Gansu's heavy industry started in the 1990s. The unproductive and heavily polluting metals industry was slimmed down, resulting in many job losses. Many workers aged 45 or older found themselves virtually unemployable.
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