Mai Huang, a disabled boy from Chaozhou, is now cycling around the country in 220 days to promote the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, according to Shantou Daily here.
Mai was injured in his lower back at the age of sixteen. The injury affected the n...

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A Sports Park and a Sports Center were planned in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, a circular that outlines economic and social development every five years from 1953.
According to the plan, a Sports Park will be built on east of Songshan Road in to...

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Yi Meizang, a 65-year old man from Xinan of Chenghai, has drawn a big map of the three cities in Chaoshan by himself.
Yi loves poetry and earns his living by writing spring couplets for other people. In order to provide a reference to people who...

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An anthology of the famous poet Chen Yanyu fom ancient Chaozhou has been published by the Chinese Poetry Publishing House recently, according to the Shantou Daily, here.
As one of the most influential poets in late Ming Dynasty in Chaozhou, Chen...

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