Except for the flocks of sheep, the only things moving in the yellowing, autumnal fields near Borxil town in Chen Barag Banner were several bulldozers, busily leveling the landscape.
Doctor Wang Yunjie died in the hospital where he had worked for 23 years, the latest victim in a spate of violent attacks on medical workers.
Early in October, a heavy storm ravaged a large swathe of East China as Typhoon Fitow swept across the region. At least 70 percent of Yuyao city in Zhejiang province was submerged under deep floodwaters that left the city of 1.3 million people paralyzed as power supplies, telecoms, tap water and public transport services were crippled. Even the local TV and radio stations were unable to broadcast.
Dressed in a well-tailored black suit, 26-year-old Ren Tianyue walked along a street in Beijing's financial district. His neat, freshly ironed shirt and classy black-framed glasses gave him the air of a white-collar worker at a big-money enterprise.
Faced with a shrinking pool of high-level talent in recent years, China has established a number of programs to tackle the "brain drain", while simultaneously encouraging a "brain gain". While some have produced encouraging results, others have encountered setbacks.
Yaacov Ben-David, a professor at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, is working temporarily as a foreign expert in Guiyang, Guizhou province
Fu Shihao ran around his grandfather's courtyard proudly displaying a yellow "honor belt", which he had to wrap twice around his tiny waist just to keep in place.
Just a few seconds later, three large rocks, the biggest estimated at more than 10 metric tons, slammed onto the road. The driver avoided them by turning the excavator's enormous arm out of range, before starting once again on his work of breaking the stones and clearing the road.
Most locals seemed indifferent to a railway project currently under way to connect Shangri-La with the tourist paradise Lijiang city, which is equidistant between Kunming, the provincial capital, and Shangri-La and will link the two larger cities. However, those who have taken an interest in the 139-km-long line expect to see plenty of changes.
China will allow the establishment of private banks and other financial institutions funded by private investment on a trial basis.
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