In Duyun, another city in Guizhou, workers at one Sunshine enterprise stitch together baseballs, and at another they make cloth gloves.

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More than 70% of Beijing's population were online last year, compared to 24.2% of people in Guizhou, the poorest province in China.

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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.

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Parents are being reminded to take more responsibility for their children's safety after five boys, aged 4 to 5 years, suffocated while burning straw in a barn in Guizhou province on Monday night, China Daily says.

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Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.

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The hero who is celebrated varies by region: the romantic poet Qu Yuan is venerated in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, Wu Zixu (an old man said to have died while slaying a dragon in Guizhou Province) in South China, and Yan Hongwo in Yunnan Province among the Dai community.

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This three-year programme is set in six counties of Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi Provinces, identified as the most vulnerable in terms of food security conditions.

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Sichuan in the Southwest, Jilin in the Northeast and several parts of Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces were also hit with heavy flooding in June and July 2010.

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In 1996 Mr. Zou became a member of Guizhou province boxing team.

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