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11:34, July 14, 2020

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  Soldiers fighting floods, then and now

  Soldiers move sandbags for dike reinforcement at Nanxian county, Yueyang city in Hunan province in 1998. [Photo by Yang Shizhong/Asianews Photo] . Soldiers and officers of the People's Liberation Army carry sandbags to the embankments of the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River in Hubei provinc

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  Villagers harvest goji berries in Jinghe County, China's Xinjiang

  Photo taken on July 13, 2020 shows products of nang, a kind of flatbread, baked with goji berries at an industry demonstration base in Jinghe County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As over 100,000 mu (about 6,667 hectares) of goji berries in the county are ripening in Jinghe Cou

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  Villagers harvest goji berries in Xinjiang

  As over 100,000 mu (about 6,667 hectares) of goji berries in the county are ripening in Jinghe County, farmers have been busy with the harvesting work here these days. (Photos: Xinhua)Thanks to dry weather, adequate sunshine, and a large temperature difference between day and night, Jinghe County becomes a place suitable for growing the high-quality goji berries.To help increase the income of local farmers, local authorities have stepped up financial support to develop goji berry industrial chain and meanwhile made great effort to promote their products.A villager picks goji berries at a plantation in Jinghe County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 13, 2020.A villager picks goji berries at a plantation in Jinghe County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 13, 2020.

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  Armed police troops join flood control operations in Jiangxi

  With the rising water of Changjiang River about to flow over the embankment near Poyang County, armed police troops came to join the flood control operations that built a 1,500-meter-long and 1.5-meter-high barrier on the embankment. (Photos: Xinhua) Liu Yifei, Ma Paishan, Yang Zeyu, Yuan Long, and Zhu Renpeng, who were all born after 2000, have for the first time joined such a flood control battle since they joined the troop.Almost every day over the past week, they did their utmost to carry and pile sandbags along the embankment while enduring sweltering weather.Armed police officer Ma Paishan (R) and his comrades are treated with mung bean soup made by a local villager in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020. Armed police officer Ma Paishan (2nd L) carries a sandbag on his shoulder in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020. Armed police officer Liu Yifei (Front) and his comrades carry bottled water in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020. Armed police officers take a nap outside houses of local residents in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020. Armed police officer Liu Yifei (1st R) carries a sandbag on the embankment in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020. Armed police officer Liu Yifei (C) piles a sandbag to reinforce the embankment in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 13, 2020.