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In many parts of China’s underdeveloped rural areas, education has been facing challenges due to poverty and a lack of awareness of its importance. And this used to be the situation in Yongku, a small village located in China’s far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where school was nonexistent before the 1960s. But later, the local educational environment was changed by a group of migrant workers, in addition to generations of local people who have been making efforts to create a better life through education over the past few decades.

Yang Baosen was one of the most famous Peking Opera masters of the last century who developed a singing technique that still bears his name-Yang Pai, or Yang style. This year marks the 110th birthday of Yang Baosen. But why was Yang considered to be the Van Gogh of Peking Opera?

Well-educated young Chinese have launched various startups or farms to make agricultural innovations or apply the newest technologies. As they transform the agriculture sector, their presence and activities have brought new dynamics to life in the countryside, attracting urban residents back for sightseeing or recreation.

A widespread greeting in China during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is "Wishing you have fish every year"; which means wishing you the best of luck and prosperity every year,as the Chinese character of “fish” is homophonic to the character of “abundance”. Good wishes have become reality in Jilin Province's Chagan Lake, in China's northeast. Millions of tourists have seen the catch from the local winter fishing season, and have been impressed by the "walls of fish" on the frozen lake. In 2008, a single net yielded 168 thousand kilograms of fish, breaking the Guinness World Record. But how can one natural lake yield so much fish? Let's see if Lake Chagan will give up some of its secrets.

Since August 2017, the Sanya city government has stepped up its efforts to protect mangrove trees—nicknamed “forests at sea” after a central government environmental inspection tour.