The same year, she teamed-up with Yan Zi to win the bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics.
CNN's Vivian Kuo, David Mattingly, Leslie Tripp Holland, Martin Savidge and Holly Yan contributed to this report.
Newspapers run extensive coverage of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to Chinese author Mo Yan.
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CNN's Yousuf Basil, Jim Clancy, Ivan Watson, Kareem Khadder, Samira Said, Salma Abdelaziz, Elwyn Lopez and Holly Yan contributed to this report.
CNN: Syria suggests it might not withdraw forces by deadline
CNN's Saad Abedine, Joe Vaccarello and Holly Yan contributed to this report.
CNN's Carma Hassan, Dana Ford and Holly Yan contributed to this report.
The Bolshoi ballet confirmed the staffing changes, saying "The theatre's general director Anatoly Iksanov appointed Yan Godovsky to the position of the ballet troupe director yesterday, after Yanin filed for voluntary leave".
To keep up with rivals, Yan, 56, says family-run TCP may have to look for outside capital.
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Carter, Michael Martinez and Holly Yan also contributed to this report.
One consists of commercially viable and politically adroit writers, many of whom are also known to international readers: Mo Yan, Su Tong, Wang Shuo, Wang Meng.
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"China still needs America's market, needs to keep the U.S. dollar strong, and also needs the U.S. to open its market to Chinese export, " said Yan Xuetong, an America-watcher in Tsinghua University.
The 80%-20% sales split today between traditional and CFL bulbs in the U.S. today will reverse within five years, Yan says, helping to create demand for hundreds of millions of replacement bulbs globally.
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CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki, Paul Armstrong, Holly Yan and Yazhou Sun contributed to this report.
CNN's Thom Patterson, Carma Hassan, Halimah Abdullah, Holly Yan and Tom Cohen contributed to this report.
CNN's Ivan Watson, Arwa Damon, Saad Abedine, Holly Yan and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report.
CNN's Yousuf Basil, Saad Abedine, Holly Yan and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report.
Zhang Wen, a 56-year-old farmer in Yan Lu village, likes to hang out near the van when it arrives.
Carter, Richard Allen Greene, Holly Yan and Michael Pearson contributed to this report.
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Left, the founder of the Los Angeles-based research firm told CNBC, it was the degree awarded to Evergrande Chairman Dr. Hui Ka Yan that sparked its investigation of the firm three months ago.
CNN's Jessica Yellin and John King reported from Jerusalem and the West Bank, and CNN's Azadeh Ansari, Karen Smith, Michael Schwartz, Jason Hanna, Joe Sterling, Holly Yan and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report, which was written by Tom Cohen in Washington.
"I guess it's okay if we can't go to those places any more, " says Yan-yan.
The demand for energy-saving bulbs that Yan foresaw years ago is about to rocket to even higher levels.
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China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
The general rule of thumb: If insomnia lasts a month and doesn't get better, talk to your doctor, says Frisca L. Yan-Go, M.
Yan-yan, who quietly harbors aspirations to become a nurse, a teacher or an actress, displays a precocious understanding of how modern-day finances work.
CNN's Saad Abedine, Salma Abdelaziz, Holly Yan, Yousuf Basil and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.
CNN: U.N. notes cease-fire violations from both sides in Syria
CNN's Brian Walker, Holly Yan, Salma Abdelaziz and Ivan Watson contributed to this report.
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