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A girl from China who once grabbed national headlines by crossing a formidable river using a cable pulley to get to school every day is returning to her hometown to repay her community after graduating from medical school. Yu Yanqia, a member of the Lisu ethnic minority, nicknamed "cable girl" comes from high up in the mountains of Yunnan province's...

China’s copper cathode output stood at 857,000 mt in June, up 4.6% month-on-month and 3.3% year-on-year. 

Lacking a written language, the Nu people have been passing down their folklore, customs and way of life orally for centuries. The ethnic group is one of the few in China that transitioned directly from a traditional agricultural and hunting society to modern society after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Nearly 10 years ago, they were hidden in villages scattered around the primeval forests along China's southwestern borders, but now there are many young Nu people entering the spotlight with a new career: hometown ambassadors/influencers on Chinese social media.

The story began about 40 million years ago, when the Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate, raising the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and creating the rumpled peaks of the Hengduan Mountains.