• Women Perform Yangge Dance to Challenge Guinness World Record

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  Women perform yangge dance during an attempt to challenge the Guinness World Record in south China's Hong Kong, March 6, 2016. More than 1,000 women took part in a yangge dance performance to challenge the Guinness World Record here on Sunday.

• An impossible task: out for a duck

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  My troubles began late one night recently when a young Chinese woman asked me to explain the game of cricket.

• Students need more top choices at home

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  As the annual sessions of the top legislative body and political advisory body continue, China Daily collected questions on issues that netizens care most about and solicited answers from political advisers, legislators and senior government officials.

• Young people working away from hometowns concerned about parents

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  Many young people who work away from their hometowns have expressed concern about their parents' well-being.

• China targets pornography on cloud storage

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  BEIJING -- The government will launch a campaign to address the emerging practice of sharing and hosting pornography via cloud storage services.

• Marriage Too Costly for Some Rural Bachelors in China

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  After the noise of firecrackers faded, Zhang Hu and his wife returned home with heavy hearts. Their son's marriage cost the impoverished family their entire savings and a debt of as much as 150,000 yuan ($23,000). It is a huge sum for a family from a poor mountainous village in Northwest China's Gansu province.

• Self-taught Artist Embroiders Dragon Robe with Gold and Silver Threads

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  He Mingyuan, 37, a self-taught artist, embroidered a gorgeous dragon robe, using threads made of 1 kilogram of gold and 1 kilogram of silver.

• Storyteller Granny, 90, Gets Special Spring Festival Gift

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  A woman in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province, sent a special gift to her 90-year old grandma during the recent Spring Festival.

• Beijing Woman Marries for Love in E Africa

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  Wang Lihong, a 48-year-old woman from Beijing, married a Ugandan man 20 years ago and has been living in the east African country ever since.

• Most Shanghai residents are unwilling to learn from Lei Feng

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  Nearly 60 percent of the residents of Shanghai do not want to learn from Lei Feng, a cultural icon in the country who was ready to help the needy.