For central heat, China has a north-south divide at Qin-Huai line

Growing up in Mao Tse-tung's hometown of Shaoshan in southern China, Tan Huiyan remembers the wintertime sensation of stepping inside through her front door — and into the cold.
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China's north-south divide of haves and have-nots.

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