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Source: Xinhua | 2021-04-19 13:41:14 | Editor: huaxia by Xinhua writers Hu Tao, Zhang Wenjing LANZHOU, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists are using the latest technology to understand the lives of an ancient ancestor of human beings, based on a jawbone fossil found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. By studying the fossil and sediments from the Baishiya Karst Cave in which the fossil was discovered, researchers have identified the jawbone as belonging to an extinct species of archaic human n...
Source: Xinhua|2021-03-11 23:39:07|Editor: huaxia LANZHOU, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A fluvial incision caused irreversible environmental degradation, such as desertification, of ancient cities in China. So says a recent study by researchers from northwest China's Lanzhou University. After surveying over 100 Chinese ancient Chinese cities, the research team took Sanchahe, an over 800-year-old city, on a terrace beside the Wuding River in northwest China's Mu Us Desert as the object of study. Based on...
Author: XiMeng On the evening of March 8, Beijing time, the British Communications Authority（Ofcom）issued sanctions and final rulings on CGTN English news channel on its official website, which caused a public outcry. CGTN English news channel is popular with audiences all over the world because of its timely, accurate, objective and diversified news concept. Many Afghan friends, including some senior politicians and some officials of international agencies in Afghanistan, have told me that they...
Source: Xinhua|2021-02-18 17:40:22|Editor: huaxia YINCHUAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Meng Debiao used to begin his day with a one-hour walk to fetch water in the wee hours, crossing over rugged mountains and standing in a long queue behind the well. Meng, 58, hails from a village in Xiji county, Xihaigu Prefecture, which was once a highly impoverished area located in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Plagued by severe drought and a fragile ecological environment, the area was labeled b...
Source: Xinhua|2021-02-16 23:48:23|Editor: huaxia LANZHOU, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Lanzhou University, located in northwest China's Gansu Province, is making use of its research on biomass energy and sustainable agriculture to help Pakistan solve its energy problems. As a traditional agricultural nation, Pakistan is abundant with biomass resources, but it has long been plagued by a shortage of energy supply. "Many locals in remote mountainous areas still use logs to obtain energy, which is highly de...
Archaeologists take samples from layers of ancient sediment in Baishiya Cave in Xiahe county, Gansu province. [Photo byZhang Dongju/For China Daily] New DNA findings support evidence that a group of extinct, ancient relatives of modern humans continuously occupied a karst cave in Gansu province tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that could have an important effect on the story of early human development. The new DNA evidence came from layers of sediment in the Baishiya Cave in Xiahe count...
BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have demonstrated that some present-day low latitude tropical wildlife species lived on the high-altitude northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 5,200 years ago. Wild bovids used to be important prey on the plateau, where hunting was a major subsistence strategy until the late Neolithic period. Researchers from Lanzhou University, the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Rel...
Xie, 28, is from Lanzhou.[Photo provided to China Daily] Xie Yanting is a familiar and much-respected figure to people in Lanzhou University. He has been on the campus as an auditor for nine years. Xie, 28, is from Lanzhou. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was a baby. The disease robbed him of many physical functions but it did not damage his mind. He is fully engaged with his doctoral studies at the university. Xie still finds his own path and continuously makes outstanding progress...
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