In Ningxia, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, for example, they are drawing far more than their fair share of the Yellow River's water.

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In Gansu and Qinghai Provinces and throughout north-central China, people of nine different ethnic groups share a music tradition known as Hua er.

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In the north Ningxia, Shanxi, Hebei and Gansu are drought-stricken.

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One each died in Sichuan and Gansu.

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Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.

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He had come the way I had, from Xian, 1, 600km westward down the Gansu corridor between the wastes of the Gobi and the cold heights of the Qilian Shan.

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