Most of China's shale gas resources are in the Sichuan and Tarim basins.
Yao also continues to work with the Yao Ming Foundation building schools in earthquake-affected regions in Sichuan and other provinces in China.
In October 2006 hundreds of people rampaged through a hospital in Sichuan and fought with police after a boy died because (the protesters believed) his father could not afford the treatment.
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Hydropower is being explored, particularly in Sichuan and Tibet.
For example, after a severe drought in the Sichuan and Chongqing sections of the Yangtze River in 2006, tens of thousands of unemployed farmers moved to Xinjiang in China's far west to pick cotton.
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Some specialise in Cantonese food, which is the local fare, but Hong Kong's many private kitchens serve up a wide range of cuisines, from Sichuan and modern Shanghainese fusion to Cajun and French. (One restaurant is even on a boat.) Reservations are required for all private kitchens and can usually be made in English.
When the oil is hot but not yet smoking, add the chiles and Sichuan pepper and stir-fry briefly until they are crisp and the oil is spicy and fragrant.
It was a sultry September, and a snack of dan dan noodles seasoned with salty preserved vegetables, perky Sichuan peppercorns and chili oil kept me alert in the intense humidity.
To the south of Xinjiang, ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan province and elsewhere are continuing their worst bout of unrest since 2008.
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Many of these monks were from Sichuan, and they returned to their monasteries with tales of Lhasa's upheaval and the recriminations that followed.
The worst water shortage in more than a century has hit the country's southwest, in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces in addition to Yunnan and Guangxi.
The air is filled with the calls of the stallholders offering everything from the ubiquitous noodles to spicy Sichuan soup and Shangdong-style pancakes, deep-fried crickets and scorpions.
The labor-cost savings are minimal as wages in western Sichuan province and central Henan, where Foxconn makes iPads and iPhones, are similar to those in coastal Guangdong.
It turned out they were from the same hometown in Sichuan, and they had pooled cash and given it to her so she could come to Guangzhou and invest in futures.
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In 2008 the authorities won praise from around the world for their quick response to the Sichuan earthquake and their unusual decision to give journalists free rein to visit the affected area.
Here, star anise, cardamom, dried chilies, fennel seed, cumin and Sichuan peppercorns provide sweetness, smoke, heat and striking complexity.
Draw a circle around the central city of Mandalay with a radius of just over 700 miles (1, 100km), he writes, and it stretches to the states of West Bengal and Bihar in India, to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, as well as to Tibet, and south to cover most of Laos and Thailand (see map).
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He begins by infusing the ice cream base with both toasted groats and Sichuan peppercorns.
The spread of Mexican, Thai and Sichuan cuisines that use chili peppers is kindling America's interest in hot dishes.
Residents found the dead ducks in Nanhe river in Pengshan county, Sichuan province, and alerted the environmental department, they said.
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It's a brazen, intensely flavorful dish that leaves one giddy with pleasure and reeling from the one-two punch packed by fiery chilies and Sichuan peppercorns, which produce a tingly sensation on the tongue.
Two Tibetan teenagers have died after setting themselves on fire in Sichuan province, activists and US media said.
She donated her Wimbledon prize money to the Sichuan earthquake relief fund and spent time helping the victims and reconstruction efforts.
Blogging about issues such as the Chinese government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 and recent spate of school stabbings, Han Han is savvy enough to know the limits of what he can and can't write about.
Fan Xiao, chief engineer at the Sichuan Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, told Global Times on Monday that the huge pressure of large reservoirs built on the fault line may have induced the Ya'an earthquakes and the more powerful Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.
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