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Eight-year-old Ma Chungmei and seven-year-old Ma Chungxue walk hand in hand towards Liushu Elementary School. The cousins, who belong to the Dongxiang ethnic minority, undertake the forty-minute walk several times a day.
Qilai Shen/Panos Pictures/Felix Features 23 Mar 2006
Dongxiang County, Gansu Province