• Peking Uni Graduate-Turned-Bike Courier Clarifies Misunderstanding

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  A bike courier named Xu Lu, who became well-known after appearing in an interview stating that she had previously majored in journalism at a prestigious national institution, has cleared up doubts about her life, after many believed she had made the story up.

• Brave Woman Who Rescued 3 in Quake, Now Needs Medical Care

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  Zhang Chunling, a physically impaired woman who saved three people during the devastating earthquake in Sichuan, southwest China, has recently been hospitalized due to complications from pregnancy, facing uncertainties over her future.

• Selfie sticks not allowed at premier's news conference

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  Reporters attending a news conference to be given by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday morning are not allowed to use selfie sticks, it was announced at 10:00 am, about half an hour before the start of the event.

• White Collar Becomes Happy Delivery Girl

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  Xu Lu, a graduate of the prestigious Peking University, quit her white-collar job in Beijing and went back to her hometown Shifang, a small city in Sichuan Province.

• China's southernmost city to plant 500,000 trees

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  China's southernmost city is preparing to plant 500,000 trees within the year in a new "greening of the islands" initiative.

• Go, or weiqi, hot after supercomputer's victory

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  Many parents still want their children to learn weiqi, the ancient Chinese board game also known as Go, despite a supercomputer's recent victory over a grandmaster of the game.

• Fight against terror intensified

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  China will continue to severely punish those involved in separatist and terrorist activities this year, the Supreme People's Court said in its annual work report.

• Mother Plants 2 Million Trees in 12 Years to Fulfill Son's Last Wish

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  A 67-year-old woman from Shanghai has planted over two million trees in the deserts of northwest China's Inner Mongolia for the past 12 years to fulfill her son's last wish.

• After Go victory, challenges given to 'AlphaMahjong'

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  BEIJING -- Glib Chinese web users have raised a challenge to the AI program that recently dethroned one of the top human Go players, demanding tongue-in-cheek that the AlphaGo program learn the nation's real pastime - mahjong.

• Duan Aiping: Dedicating Herself to Villagers' Well-being

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  Duan Aiping, Party chief of Fandi Village in Xiangyuan County, north China's Shanxi Province, was recently granted the title of National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter by the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF).