Gun Yuanli aims his gun at Basha Village in Congjiang County, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The Miao people in Basha are the only group in China that are permitted to carry guns. Gun, 19, has become the first student from the village, where people lead a life virtually untouched by modernization, to be admitted to a key national university, Minzu University of China in Beijing. (Photo: China News Service/Liang Guangyuan)
