Gun Yuanli prays under a big tree, a traditional practice of the Miao people, at Basha Village in Congjiang County, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province. 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)
