Lin Jinguang saw his grandson off from Fuzhou Changle International Airport on April 19. For the first couple of months after the boy's departure, the grandfather, 63, found it difficult to stay at home, but with the passage of time he's gradually adapting to a quieter life.
It's been nearly six weeks since her 82-year-old mother died, but Huang Yuan still cringes when she remembers the glimpses she caught of the elderly woman behind the thick glass wall of the intensive care unit. It's a wall that separates, often once and for all, the realm of the living and the immediate, dark corridor leading to the world of death.
Comprehensive studies conducted after the disaster in Fukushima will help ensure safety and high standards, Jiang Xueqing reports from Shenzhen and Wu Wencong from Beijing.
China will not develop nuclear power plants inland before 2015, a State Council executive meeting decided on Oct 24. The decision means that inland nuclear power projects on which preliminary work has already begun will be halted for at least another three years.
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co instigated 17 specific action plans to improve the safety features of its reactor units. So far, it has fulfilled more than half of them.
Carrying a large bottle of liquefied butter, Thangmokor walked slowly in his red robes - a distinguishing feature of Tibet's Buddhist monks - toward one of the halls of Kirti Monastery in the northwest of Aba county, Sichuan province. The elderly monk was on his way to refill the butter lamps in the halls so the flames could continue to burn as part of the daily rituals.
Editor's note: Lorang Konchok is currently awaiting trial. The 40-year-old became a monk at Kirti Monastery at age 17.
A number of migrant workers have become political figures after being elected as delegates at high-level political meetings. Tang Yue reports from Shanghai and Beijing.
Zhang Yanqin and her poverty-stricken family are used to relying on charity. To show their gratitude, Zhang has pasted donation receipts on the wall of their cave dwelling in a remote village in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
In the rural areas of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, most people measure success by the number of cisterns they own. In the dry sandy region, rainfall is the only source of water and cistern ownership denotes social status.
Microfinance is widely used in Ningxia by farmers whose access to banking and related services is limited because of high transaction costs.
The Yellow River flows through the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
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