Video Player Close by Xinhua writer Yuan Quan BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Xing Lida, 39, spends his life looking for traces of dinosaurs that became extinct more than 60 million years ago. Discovering any trace always excites the youthful paleontologist. He once found fossils with footprints of a dinosaur making a U-turn, the world's first evidence of such a maneuver. He was the first to identify tracks of a swimming theropod in China. And he made a mind-blowing finding of parallel tracks left by dromaeosaurs in one site, indicating that the dinosaurs, which were previously thought to be solitary, lived in groups. His latest discovery is a group of 80 million-year-old tracks left by at least eight dinosaurs in east China's Fujian Province. Such a diverse set of tracks will be part of his map of ancient dinosaur habitats across the country. An associate professor at China University of Geosciences, Xing spends seven months a year living in rough terrain and weather in ... » Learn More about Feature: A Chinese dinosaur hunter
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Education in China’s anti-poverty campaign: leaving no one behind
Video Player Close Students pose for a photo at a primary school in Gandong Township of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 14, 2019. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang) BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's most populous country, on Thursday declared that it has eliminated absolute poverty. The feat means China has solved absolute poverty, which has existed for thousands of years. The nation's people have now realized their long-cherished wish for ample food and clothing as well as comfortable housing. China's achievement in poverty alleviation is not just limited to improvements in material conditions but also includes efforts in raising public spirit. The country has boosted the enthusiasm, ambition and creativity of the poor by providing them access to education and helped build aspirations. Aerial photo taken on March 28, 2020 shows a primary school near a poverty-relief relocation site in Du'an Yao ... » Learn More about Education in China’s anti-poverty campaign: leaving no one behind