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Potential bonanza in Chinese nuclear sector

THE villagers at Xinwuli, Hunan, direct us through a 1000-year-old maze of cobblestone paths to the family home of one of their minor celebrities, Li Zi'an. Li's mother, a dignified woman named Chen, shuffles out on her spindly legs to greet us. "I don't know what my son is doing, only that he's working in Guangzhou and this spring festival he didn't come home," she says.