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Xi'an Marks the Spot
The state of China's student activist movement
By Dongli Zhang and Nathan Wyeth
17 Oct 2006
"Watch out." That's what one student leader, Hu Kunzhu, told us in a sweltering university dining hall in Xi'an this August.
We were in this ancient capital of China for the College Environmental Groups Forum, which brought together students from more than 60 universities across the country. These included representatives from the far-flung wealthy provinces of the east coast and the relatively impoverished desert west, together for the first-ever national conference of the country's quickly emerging -- and much needed -- student environmental movement.
Beijing's new look.
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