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Photo: Primary school students row a raft to school in Gulong, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Thursday. More than 30 of the 80 students at a primary school in Gulong live on the other side of a reservoir and have to use bamboo rafts to get to school.

Experts discussion: Where now for China's economy? Recent manufacturing and trade data suggest the economy is not slowing as much as some feared earlier this year. Liu Qian, deputy director of the China Service at the Economist Intelligence Unit in Beijing, and Oliver Barron at NSBO, the London-based China economics research organization, tell China Daily senior correspondent Andrew Moody that many challenges remain ahead.