Monday, September 19, 2005

A million Xinjiang herdsmen farewell nomadic life


"The longtime primitive and unsettled life of about one million herdsmen in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region come [sic] to an end as they have moved into brand-new residential areas with the aid of local governments."
China Daily

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Blogger DigitalSpy said...

I just watched a documentary on the ABC (Australia) called China. If you haven't seen it then do yourself a favour. It was on at 11:10pm tonight (well last night now) so it should be on around the same time next week.
It showed footage of the 1976 earthquake in Tang Shan and interviews with survivors.
I couldn't help but compare the rescue effore in China in '76 with the Katrina debacle and there was just no comparison.
They pulled 400,000 survivors out of the rubble (96% total devastation with over twenty thousand dying in just two factories alone) in 30 hours and treated 360,000 casualties in the space of ten days.
The next episode is called "Revenge of the River Gods" and it is a must see. The Chinese really show the spirit of community that we seem to have lost in the West.

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