Article: Ethnic living habits prove conducive to longevity

Ethnic living habits prove conducive to longevity

YINCHUAN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the largest community of China's Muslims, is a land of longevity.

While there are five centenarians for every 1 million people across China, on average, in Ningxia, a region with a population of 5.8 million, the proportion is 80 per 1 million, with two oldest being 120. The majority of them are people of Hui Nationality.

Na Shengcai, a 96-year-old man in Yinchuan, the regional capital, still has good hearing and eyesight. He cooks for himself when his descendants are busy with farming and goes to Mosque five times a day.

Na said the secret of maintaining a ...

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