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Profile: Life in China near the Gobi Desert is very hard with water being scarce and farming difficult
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RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-05-2004
Profile: Life in China near the Gobi Desert is very hard with water being scarce and farming difficult
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
China's sweeping economic reforms and dramatic changes have transformed the cities in the eastern part of the country such as Shanghai. Those changes have yet to take hold in China's impoverished inland Gansu Province. NPR's Rob Gifford is on the fourth leg of his road trip along China's Route 312 from the east coast ...
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Profile: Life in China near the Gobi Desert is very hard with water being scarce and farming difficult
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; ...FENGPING(ph): (Chinese spoken) GIFFORD: Liu...21-year-old Wang Bin(ph). He, like...not well. Mr. WANG BIN: (Chinese spoken) GIFFORD: Resting...their kitchen, Wang Bin props himself...targets. Mr. WANG: (Chinese spoken) Ms. LIU: ...
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