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Culture vultures swoop across the plateau

[2014-06-27 07:19]

Even though night had already descended on Beijing, at 9 pm on a summer evening the sun was still shining over the plateau of the Tibet autonomous region. In Qamdo prefecture, the largest city in the east of the region, a huge screen in Liberation Square played traditional music to more than 1,000 people who formed a number of concentric circles and began a traditional dance.

A secretive cult that exploits the weak and vulnerable

[2014-06-26 07:10]

At first glance, Zhangzhai looks like any other village in China. It seems to be a peaceful place, mainly populated by elderly people and children, but upon closer inspection, a very different picture emerges.

Underground banks and stolen money

[2014-06-26 07:10]

Quannengshen, or The Church of Almighty God, is a secretive organization, and the biggest mystery surrounds its financial operations.

Tactics and control strategies

[2014-06-26 07:10]

"Secretive", "controlling", "money-loving" and "crazy" are the words Song Wang, a 30-year-old from Yongzhou county, Henan province, used to describe the sect.

'Porcelain pilgrims' set up shop

[2014-06-25 07:09]

Dressed in paint-stained coveralls, China De La Vega easily navigated the maze of alleyways running alongside a ceramics factory in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Preserving the ancient traditions

[2014-06-25 07:09]

When Li Jianshen founded Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in 1998, the building in which it is housed was just an old house Li bought from some local farmers in the suburbs of Jingdezhen.

From backwater to the mainstream

[2014-06-24 07:10]

Su Lingwen had no choice but to drop out of high school after just one year. The 17-year-old was expected to get into a key university, but he found it almost impossible to keep pace with his peers from the cities. Su was raised in Sankeshu, a poor township in Suqian city, Jiangsu province, and went to primary school and middle school there.

Taking the plunge in a new world

[2014-06-24 07:10]

Wu Weiliang is the first person in his family to attend a key university. The Henan province native, who comes from a low-income family, studied day and night for three years to achieve his dream and eventually entered Chongqing University in 2011, majoring in Civil Engineering.