• Plantations lift villages out of poverty in Hebei

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  Just two years ago, there was neither road nor trees where a walnut plantation now grows in Tiangang village, Angezhuang township, Yixian county, Hebei province, a mountainous area about 150 km away from the center of Beijing.

• Traffic policeman hailed a hero for saving cars from deep sinkhole

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  A traffic policeman prevented a disastrous accident thanks to his experience, winning praise from the world after a surveillance video was broadcasted by CNN, reported zjol.com.cn on Tuesday.

• School to boost teaching for autistic kids

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  A new training school for teachers and parents of autistic children opened in Beijing on Sunday.

• Young Dancer Completes Debut Performance with Artificial Limb

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  A disabled primary school student who had her left leg amputated after a serious traffic accident, recently completed her debut dance performance in a large-scale charity show, alongside hundreds of volunteers, in east China's Zhejiang Province.

• Internet Celeb Accepts Criticism of Media Authority

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  Popular internet presenter Papi Jiang said on her Weibo social media account on April 18 that she accepted the criticism of China's media authority to take her videos offline. She will pay more attention to her language and personal image in future, so as to meet the requirement of the online audio-visual industry, she announced.

• Web users select China's "Good Samaritans"

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  BEIJING - China's Internet users have selected 10 individuals and groups as China's "Good Samaritans," for the first quarter of 2016.

• Tour groups banned after visitors swamp alleyway

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  Nanluoguxiang, a famous ancient alleyway in Beijing that is packed with small tourism shops, bars and restaurants, has become a victim of its own success and will no longer accommodate tour groups because of the huge numbers of people who visit the scenic spot each day.

• Warehouse storing chemicals and fuel catches fire in Jiangsu

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  A warehouse storing chemicals and fuel exploded and caught fire in Jingjiang city, East China's Jiangsu province, on Friday, according to media reports.

• Hospitals add beds for maternity boom

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  Facing a predicted surge in pregnancies this year following the adoption of the universal second-child policy in China, major hospitals in Beijing are setting aside twice as many beds as usual for woman with high-risk pregnancies.

• Chinese Woman Donates Stem Cells to Argentinian Boy

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  A 26-year-old woman from the city of Kaifeng, central China's Henan Province, donated her stem cells at a local hospital on April 18, to help a young boy in Argentina who is suffering from a serious blood condition.