• The people behind the funny faces

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  Three years ago, when Liu Jingjing posted on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, a white cartoon image of a chubby figure with a tuft of grass on its head, it is unlikely she imagined just how popular it would become. So popular in fact that millions of people use it each day, making it one of the most popular emojis on China's instant messaging services.

• 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.

• Draft law eases curbs on foreign NGOs in country

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  A draft law to regulate NGOs from outside the Chinese mainland eases restrictions on their operations and activities.

• Boy's sudden death prompts campaign against child labor

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  The sudden death of a 14-year-old boy at a factory in Foshan city, Guangdong province, has triggered a citywide campaign against the exploitation of child laborers in the Pearl River Delta hub.

• 400 Students Take 'No Cell Phone Challenge' for 3 Weeks

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  Recently, a series of bracelets have gone viral on the twitter-like website weibo.com, with some featuring words "Cell Phone Ninja."

• 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.