Li Yunxia, Chinese paper cutting master, was born in Shanxi Province, where paper cutting is still practiced and taught.

中国剪纸大师李云霞出生于山西省，在那里仍然有剪纸的实践和教学。

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In Shanxi Province, people are still experts at steaming flour figures.

在山西省，人们仍然在蒸粉的数字专家。

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A convoy of trucks hauling coal near the Datong City number two power plant in Shanxi province.

一队拖着煤炭的卡车正行驶在山西省大同市二电厂附近。

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Elsewhere, villagers are returning to their homes after a reservoir partially collapsed in Shanxi province on the weekend causing more than 10, 000 residents to flee their flooded homes, China Daily reports.

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It also contained investigative reports on the environmental damage caused by abandoned coal mines in Shanxi province and a poor man in Jiangsu province who was forced to administer his own dialysis treatments.

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About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.

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