Thank you for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent from the BBC.

It was first broadcast on the 10th of March 2016 and it's presented by Kate Aide.

Hello, today what's going on in China if no one buys pearls anymore, but

larger sales are soaring.

Fighting elephant poachers is a dangerous business especially if a neighboring

African country's army is part of the problem. We travel on the ancient

Via Ignatia that used to join two empires, but on a modern Greek version of the route, you don't

get quite as far as you'd hope.

And with the zekavirus outbreak in Brazil, would you want to try for a baby there now?

In China, the National People's Congress gathers once a year for a mammoth session that decides

on, or more likely rubber-st stamps, government policy.

And in Beijing at the moment, observers are watching for announcements on political priorities

and economic growth forecasts.

A centerpiece of President Xi Jing Ping's agenda has been his campaign against corruption.

200,000 Communist Party officials were what they call likely punished last year, with a further 80,000 receiving more severe penalties.

But A Celia Hatton's been finding out it's not just party apparatchiks who've been feeling

the brunt of the campaign.

I had already handed her my credit card, but Jane wanted to chat.

She was taking her time ringing up the sale.

When we first met a decade ago, she had just landed her job in one of

Beijing's touristy pearl stores known for selling earrings and necklaces that cost

a fortune elsewhere. For years, time I visited the store was crowded and

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