Weng Shenglin, 69, was one of the villagers who cut down trees to make a living until 2003. He said: "Many people were like us back at that time. They chipped the trunk into mulch, or cut it into smaller blocks and hauled them away. But the tree roots remained in the ground. Forests near our village looked quite bare."
Wei Jianguo, vice-president of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said the summit in Xiamen will herald the start of the bloc's "second golden decade" representing the interest of developing nations and emerging economies.
When Lyu Huanbin graduated from Hunan Normal University in the late 1980s, he turned down the college's offer to stay on as a teacher, but instead took up a job as a journalist with Hunan Television.
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Wen Bin, chief researcher at China Minsheng Banking Corp, said, "Affected by international financial market fluctuations and market expectations, the recent stock market slump was irrational and deviated from Chinese economic fundamentals, so the government took a number of measures to stabilize the capital markets.
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When Li went to study in Australia about three decades ago and then started working there, he said warmhearted locals helped him in various ways.
Wengfu, which launched operations in 2000, discovered that phosphorus-related emissions were making a nearby river turn milky. It started to research on how to process and deal with its production waste.
When I was growing up, there was a TV program called The Andy Griffith Show, starring a folksy, amiable star who lived in a small, fictional town called Mayberry. It was set in the same region I grew up in.
Wei is one of some 100,000 women in Liji township who not long ago could earn little to nothing. Now, from humble beginnings in the 1980s, Liji's accessories industry brings in revenue of around 7 billion yuan annually.