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Chop wood for winter

2009-12-07 09:27:05 GMT2009-12-07 17:27:05 (Beijing Time)  China Daily

A woman carries a bundle of wood on her way back to home in Gaopo township of Guiyang city, southwest China's Guizhou province, December 5, 2009. Most people in Gaopo can't afford coal and have been chopping wood to make daily fires to cook food and get warm in winter. With less and less trees on the nearby mountains, it usually takes about eight hours' walking to find wood and carry it back, local media reported. [Asianewsphoto]

Villagers carry bundles of wood on their way back to home in Gaopo township of Guiyang city, southwest China's Guizhou province, December 5, 2009. Most people in Gaopo can't afford coal and have been chopping wood to make daily fires to cook food and get warm in winter. With less and less trees on the nearby mountains, it usually takes about eight hours' walking to find wood and carry it back, local media reported. [Asianewsphoto]

Villagers carry bundles of wood on their way back to home in Gaopo township of Guiyang city, southwest China's Guizhou province, December 5, 2009. Most people in Gaopo can't afford coal and have been chopping wood to make daily fires to cook food and get warm in winter. With less and less trees on the nearby mountains, it usually takes about eight hours' walking to find wood and carry it back, local media reported. [Asianewsphoto]

A woman carries a bundle of wood on her way back to home in Gaopo township of Guiyang city, southwest China's Guizhou province, December 5, 2009. Most people in Gaopo can't afford coal and have been chopping wood to make daily fires to cook food and get warm in winter.

With less and less trees on the nearby mountains, it usually takes about eight hours' walking to find wood and carry it back, local media reported.

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