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When the TV cameras captured an 8-year-old Yu Yanqia dragging herself upside down along a steel rope strung above the raging Nujiang River on her daily journey to school, little would she have thought that things were going to get much better. Back then there were no bridges striding the Nujiang in rural Fugong county, so the only way across the torrent for young and old was via a primitive and precarious steel rope and pulley system. That was in 2007 in Yunnan province. And things have got a lot better for the "steel cable girl", her local area, and for millions of formerly impoverished Chinese people over the last few decades. The images of Yu struggling to pull herself across the river came as a shock to many who lived outside of rural China at that time, but for the young girl, it was just another part of daily life. Yu, now a doctor at a hospital in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture where Fugong county is situated, remembers how her heart raced with the howling wind each time she
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