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In Chicheng, sheep farming had been a main source of income for many local residents for years. However, the region has been targeted by government authorities who are seeking to stop desertification and conserve water resources.
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Golf is a "green opium", joked Li Xiaoming, a 52-year-old Beijing businessman who played the sport almost every day in the year that he was most fanatical about it.
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Local governments across China started building or renovating 8.68 million government-subsidized housing units in the January-August period, roughly 1.3 million units short of what the central government ordered for the year.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has promised to increase rural education investment and improve the welfare of rural students.
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China has ordered its public museums and cultural heritage institutions to halt commercial operations that run contrary to public interests, after an exclusive club was discovered in the Forbidden City earlier this year.
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"I prefer cash and shopping cards from my boss as holiday gifts because mooncakes are often over packaged and cost more than their real value," said Li Mao from the northern city of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province.
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Fishers in Hebei province are worried that the absence of an official report showing how a recent oil leak has affected the environment of Bohai Bay will cool the overseas demand for their fish.
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More regional leadership reshuffles may be expected as the Communist Party of China (CPC) gears up for next year's Party congress.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged more efforts by local governments to ensure agricultural production during an inspection tour of the northern Hebei Province from Friday to Sunday.
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More oil has been detected near the two leaking oil platforms in Northeast China's Bohai Bay, authorities said.
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