She cried several times after failed attempts. "Not because of the painful drills, but because I felt anxious and discouraged at not mastering the skills," she said.
Shen was a journalist with Xinhua News Agency for 26 years, starting as a reporter in Zhejiang Province and rising through the ranks to become the agency's vice president. In 2015, he left to take up the post of publicity chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Guangdong provincial committee.
She said residents in the capital had noticed the legislation, and more than 1.4 million had responded to questionnaires about what people can do to improve the living environment of the city.
Shen Cong's purchase and adoption were the work of his adoptive father's father, who died six years ago. Li said Shen's adoptive father was working outside the city when Shen was brought to his home.
She spoke in Juba during a handover ceremony of 2,048 tonnes of China-donated rice to the UN food agency. The donation is part of 8,800 tonnes of rice Beijing pledged to South Sudan in 2017 to fight severe food shortage.
She was first lady when her husband was in the White House from 1989 to 1993. Her son, Republican George Walker Bush, triumphed in the disputed 2000 US election and was president from 2001 to 2009. The father-and-son presidents were sometimes referred to as "Bush 41" and "Bush 43."
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She has been a docent to many exhibitions, including Qiu Zhijie: Mappa Mundi, Picasso-Birth of a Genius, Matthew Barney: Redoubt and the ongoing Elizabeth Peyton: Practice.
She wrote in her diary: "My dream has come true, and it makes me realize if one thing is your true love, you have to experience it by your own, then you can know what on earth the dream means."
She twists off the pigment lid with her teeth, dries the interior of a finger-size bottle with a bulb blower under her chin and uses a tiny brush to paint on the inner surface of the tiny container.
She and her husband and daughter were in Chengdu ready to head for the valley in their SUV on Aug 8 when a magnitude-7.0 earthquake shook the area.