Gansu Province: `A Third World Within China' Series: CHINA Series Number: 2/2 From: The Washington Post | Date: November 18, 1988| Author: Daniel Southerland | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For 51-year-old Wei Zhuji and his elder brother, water has meant everything. They once lived in a village here in Gansu Province where in nine years out of 10, the harvest failed for lack of rainfall. They had to travel five miles on donkeys to get well water, and to stave off starvation, they often ate a bitter-tasting weed that grew wild in the region.

About a decade ago, officials trying to raise the living standards in Gansu persuaded the two brothers and others in their hardscra...

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