On a yearly basis, prices of new homes are down in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Qindao, Haikou, Wenzhou again, Jinhua, Guilin and Dali.

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Flight ZH9866 was immediately ordered to return to Nanjing, while Flight ZH9243 out of Xi'an was redirected to the airport in Guilin, Xinhua said.

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The problem, says Yan Xiaohua, the president of Guilin Pharmaceuticals, one of China's leading producers of artemisinin and its derivatives, is not that there are too few plants, but that the price of leaves has shot through the roof.

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It had been open just one day when I arrived, and the new rail service would save me from retracing the uncomfortable five-hour bus trip I had endured to get here from the tourist hub of Guilin city, about 150km to the southeast.

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