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Road upgraded for Derung people

Updated: 2012-11-27 20:16
By chinadaily.com.cn

A new road sets to break the hardship of the Derung people, who will no longer have to suffer a long bumpy journey when leaving Dulongjiang in northern Yunnan province. It is a community that had been shut off for six months of the year when the existing dirt road became impassible in winter.

China Daily's Hu Yongqi went to investigate.

Road upgraded for Derung people

Written By Hu Yongqi

Photographs: Wang Jing

Editor: D J Clark

Producer: Flora Yue

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