29th of March 2011
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Flag-raising ceremony marks 3rd Serfs Emancipation Day in Lhasa
A national flag-raising ceremony is held at the Potala Palace Square in Lhasa, Tibet on March 28, 2011. More than 3,000 people participated in a national flag-raising ceremony on Monday to mark the third Serfs Emancipation Day. On March 28, 1959, China's central government announced it would dissolve the aristocratic local government of Tibet and replace it with a preparatory committee for establishing the Tibet Autonomous Region, putting an end to serfdom, and abolishing the hierarchal system characterized by theocracy with the Dalai Lama as the core of the leadership.
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Attempts to harass Tibet stability are doomed
Tibet's autonomous regional government chief said yesterday that any outside attempts aimed at destabilizing political stability and harassing economic progress in Tibet will prove to be doomed to outright failure.
Padma Choling, governor of Tibet, said it is not easy for Tibet to have come this far in its development, as the region's residents of Tibetan and other ethnicities are now enjoying rising levels of livelihood and prosperity.
China marked the third Serfs Emancipation Day on Monday. On the same day 52 years ago, as many as 1 million Tibetan serfs, making up for 95 percent of then Tibet's population, were liberated from serfdom and treated as true human beings, instead of "animals who can speak," a term used to describe the population under serfdom.
Moody's says China banking system outlook stable
Moody's Investors Service said Monday the outlook for China's banking system is stable over the next 12 to 18 months, and the country's banks have adequate cushions against rising non-performing loans (NPLs).
The report, entitled "China Banking System Outlook," said the outlook was based on the view that the domestic economy will remain strong and provide banks with ongoing opportunities to generate strong earnings.
China works to develop a well-educated labor force by 2015
China will work to ensure those entering its labor force receive an average of 13.3 years of education by 2015, Vice Minister of Education Du Yubo said on Monday.
If this target is hit, the majority of those entering the labor force over the next five years will have to obtain a college degree. China's primary and secondary education each take six years to complete.
China will strive to increase its gross enrollment ratio (GER) in the higher learning sector from 26.5 percent in 2010 to 36 percent by 2015, Du told a press conference.
China says it will improve selection of leading city officials
China's leadership pledged Monday to improve the selection, training, evaluation and supervision of city-level top officials, including Party chiefs and mayors.
High-quality city officials are needed to improve governance, realize stable and fast economic growth, and long-term stability, said a statement issued after a meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, presided over by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The country needs to raise the standards for promoting leading city officials, it said.
A city head should be loyal to the Party, the state and people, the statement said.
"Nobel" Obama's Peace and War fog
By Li Hongmei
How could the US-led Western military coalition brush away Muammar Gaddafi and drop democracy and human rights onto the soil of the embattled Libya from a height of 40,000 feet at the cost of civilians and without getting caught in a prolonged military conflict? How could the ongoing military intervention "bring peace" to a war-torn country? Perhaps, without cutting through the fog of war it's impossible to understand what's really going on in Libya.
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As imagined, the "Nobel" Obama weighs much more of the American interests and its geopolitical strategies in the Arab world than what the peace prize really means. Libyan turmoil is publicly propped up not only by the US-led Western diplomatic devices but also military intervention. The purpose is not as simple as the "regime change", which the U.S. denied, but focuses on isolating Iran, taking up the entire Arab market and further, spreading the political chaos to Russia and China in order to counterbalance the emerging strengths.
People's Daily Editorial: Bringing social cohesion into full play
"Bringing social vitality into full play and social harmony to the highest limit and reducing all the non-harmonious factors to a minimum," are the goals Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao set for at a symposium as he urged provincial-level Party carders to strengthen and innovate social management.
"People's welfare," "happiness" and "stability" have become the keywords for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. It will enrich Marx's social management theory and make innovation to CPC's mass work in new phase by building an all-round well-off society, speeding up the process of modernization, examining closely the social vitality, harmony and stability from strategic perspective.
China is in a critical period of great social transformation, with social strata, social organization and social values having undergone or undergoing profound changes. The gaps between urban and rural areas, regions, industries and social members keep widening, the interest claims of the masses are showing signs of variation and diversification, and the conflict of interests are becoming more and more conspicuous.
With the progress made in economic growth, building of democracy and exchanges of various ideas and culture, people's ideology has become more and more independent, changeable and different, which has made the achievement of social accord all the more unattainable. It is an epic theme to adapt to this kind of deep change, accelerate and innovate social management and maintain social vitality and harmony.
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Food to be tested for radiation
Beijing - The Ministry of Health has ordered local administrations in 14 places including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and some coastal provinces to test drinking water and food for radiation, according to an online statement issued on Sunday.
'Time to clean up rural area pollution'
BEIJING - The program to reduce pollution between 2011 and 2015 will include emission targets for rural areas, Li Ganjie, vice-minister of environmental protection, said on Monday.
The country's vast rural areas, included in the program for the first time, are becoming more polluted than cities, he said.
"Pollution from agricultural sources already contributes to more than half of the country's total emissions," said Li. "It is high time that we addressed these problems."
4G network is another step closer to reality
BEIJING - China Mobile Communications Co said on Monday that the country's top telecom regulator has approved five telecommunication equipment makers to begin construction of the fourth-generation (4G) network.
China Mobile, the world's largest telecom carrier by subscriber numbers, obtained approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in December to conduct a commercial trial of the homegrown 4G network TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) in seven major Chinese cities. TD-LTE equipment providers have also been given the green light to provide equipment for the trial.
Large industrial firms' profits up
The Jan-Feb growth rate of 34 percent was significantly lower than that in the year-ago period
BEIJING - The profit growth of China's large industrial companies registered a year-on-year 34 percent increase in the first two months of this year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Sunday.
The rate was significantly lower than the 119.7 percent year-on-year growth achieved in the first two months of 2010, the highest in two years, the NBS said.
The companies' profits were 645.5 billion yuan ($98 billion) in the January-February period, but the year-on-year growth rate was 15 percentage points lower than the 49 percent achieved in the first 11 months of 2010.
A rapid rise in production costs and more monetary tightening measures may continue to hurt business earnings, analysts said.
China to launch crackdown on contaminated pig feed
BEIJING- China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said on Monday that the government would launch a one-year crackdown on illegal additives in pig feed which have proven to be toxic to humans.
Project under way to relocate residents
Xi'an - A project that will cost nearly 14 billion yuan ($ 2.14 billion) to relocate people from remote mountainous areas in Northwest China has started, a provincial government said.
The relocation project, prompted by health concerns, is targeting residents living in northern Shaanxi's poverty-stricken Baiyu mountainous areas.
The project will take 10 years to help 392,000 people gain access to a safe water supply, a press officer at Shaanxi provincial office of poverty alleviation and development, said on Monday.
"Some residents will be moved out to nearby villages where there are abundant water sources," the official, who declined to be named, said. "Some will settle down in cities or relatively developed towns with better educational and living systems."
Baiyu mountainous areas, located near the border of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, do not provide sufficient supplies of drinking water due to the high altitude, deep ground water and scant rainfall.
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Qinhuangdao, Hebei province
Qinhuangdao 秦皇岛 is a city in Hebei province, China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea.
Witness of Tibet Photography Contest and Exhibit
2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, and the magazine China's Tibet and Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Tibet Autonomous Region are jointly holding a "Witness of Tibet, 1950-2010" photography contest. In addition to prizes, all winning works will be exhibited in Beijing and Lhasa in May 2011.
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CCTV Tibet chairman deliveres speech on 52nd anniversary of emancipation VIDEO
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the emancipation of millions of Serfs in Tibet. On Sunday, the region's chairman delivered a speech to the Tibetan people.
Padma Choling, Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, said, "The democratic reform has freed millions of serfs in the autonomous region. Since then, the Tibet Autonomous Region has followed a road from darkness to brightness.
It is developing from poverty to affluence. It is a period that has seen the region become more open. The people of the Tibet Autonomous Region should remember this day!"
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CCTV China to continue education reforms VIDEO
The State Council's Information Office has held a press conference on education reforms over the course of the 11th Five-Year Plan. Monday's briefing also discussed strategic goals for the next half-decade.
The 11th Five-Year Plan highlighted a crucial period for education reform and development in China. Free nine-year compulsory education in rural and urban areas was realized nationwide during this period, while mass higher education was further developed. Progress was also made in the areas of vocational education and developmental equity.
CCTV Studio interview: Educational resources in rural areas VIDEO
For more analysis, we are joined in the studio by our current affairs commentator, Professor Fu Jun.
Q1: Hello, Professor. The lack of educational resources in China, especially in rural areas, is a big concern in China. What do you think we could do to provide rural regions with more educational resources?
Q2: A major challenge facing China is to make entrance opportunities for post-secondary education more fair. Do you have any suggestions on how to do this?
CCTV Competition for fair starting point VIDEO
Getting into kindergarten is becoming more and more difficult in China. Limited access, high tuition, and regional pre-schooling disparities are generating great concern. While authorities are working to give children a fair start, debates are raging over what is really practical.
For Chinese children the educational race starts early. They start kindergarten at 3 years old -- if they're lucky. By 2007, half the public kindergartens in China were gone, and most of those remaining became commercial ventures.
Parent in Beijing said, "Most private kindergartens are expensive, and in the cheap ones, conditions are bad. The teachers are not good, either."
CCTV National Museum of China reopens to public after renovation VIDEO
The National Museum of China has reopened to the public for free, after nearly four years of renovation. China's ancient bronze art, and traditional paintings highlight the new beginning as the first exhibition in the new facility.
Featuring ancient Chinese Bronze Art, this display highlights cultural relics exclusively collected by the museum. Past glories from the Shang Dynasty to the Warring States Period are embodied in the shape, decoration, and inscribed calligraphy of the bronze vessels. Visitors can view the changes in the bronze art of different periods.
CCTV Rural schools expect availability of gov't subsidy VIDEO
More than ten million students from low income families in rural areas have been helped by government funding. However, the subsidy only applies to those living on campus, limiting who can avail of the grant.
Banren Center School stands out in this remote town. Not only an impressive building, it has good facilities that students from all over the county use.
But there's one big problem the students and the institution face.
Chinese, Russian top diplomats call on West to restrain in air strikes against Libya
MOSCOW, March 24 (Xinhua) -- China is deeply concerned about the situation in Libya and urged the Western forces to prevent more civilian deaths in the North African country, the visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov here Thursday.
China has always emphasized the priority to protect the civilians in Libya, and China opposes any military actions that would cause more civilian casualties or humanitarian disaster there, said Zhang.
The Western coalition forces must comply with international law while conducting military operation against Libya, the Chinese diplomat stressed.
He also said China supports the policy to solve Libya crisis through dialogues.
CCTV Chinese, German FMs discuss Libyan situation over phone VIDEO
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle have talked on the phone, to discuss the situation in Libya.
On Thursday, Yang expressed China's great concern over the civilian deaths due to air strikes launched by Western powers, and urged an immediate cease-fire. He said the crisis should be resolved by dialogues on the basis of respecting Libya's sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity. Yang also said China supports the diplomatic efforts by the special envoy of the UN, the African Union and Arab League.
CCTV Cross over: NATO's role in Libya VIDEO
For more information on the tensions in Libya, we are now joined by our correspondent Vanessa Mock, in Brussels.
Q1:NATO is now going to take over a coordination role in Libya. Do we know anything more about what it will do exactly?
Q2, France has really resisted calls for NATO to step over the command of the operation, why is it so against it?
CCTV African Union official comments on Libya VIDEO
The chief of the African Union's Human Rights and Refugees Office has shared his opinions on the Libya issue.
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Global Times
The UK taught the world how to produce in the 19th century, the US showed the world how to consume in the 20th century, and China needs to demonstrate how to develop in a sustainable way in the 21st century.
Govt grip on housing prices not optional
Recently, many Chinese cities released their housing regulation goals but this led to a the public outcry. Some cities linked maximum house price increases to GDP growth or to the average resident disposable income.
The goals of the local regulation seemed quite different to the public's expectations. Sharp-minded critics believe that the intent was not to control house prices, but to provide new space for the price increase.
Obviously, local governments have not cooperated well with the central government. Premier Wen Jiabao recently said to China National Radio that he had confidence that house prices could "return to reasonable levels." From the released price increase control, we can clearly see hesitation, dodging and even an evasion of responsibility from local governments.
Governments at all levels should be aware that housing prices are becoming a political issue, as sensitive as CPI. Most debates about house prices are carried out at the economic level, but Chinese society simply cannot accept a fully market-based house price.
No matter whether right or wrong, Chinese society is now urging the government to solve all its economic and livelihood issues. Many people think that this is socialism.
Since the Communist Party of China holds the power, it must weather this pressure. Some requirements about housing are unreasonable. To endure them is the price of being a powerful and big government.
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Lack of confidence threatens resurrection
The fledging and robust development of the Internet in China is really a colossal vanity affair.
The latest example involves the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the strong earthquake in Japan, which to many people's surprise, ignited online debates about China's resurrection.
Both parties in this debate have cited various points, even contradictory examples from home and abroad, by coming to contradictory conclusions. Such behavior reminds one of a Chinese saying that visiting monks give better sermons.
It is not unusual among many Chinese people that Western opinions matter a lot in their decision-making. The lack of confidence in culture and politics has become an "epidemic disease," especially among some intellectual elites. Based on their observations of the different social welfare situations in China and the West, they believe that China has not embraced the "best" political system popular in the West.
Such self-denial not only ignores China's achievements as the world's second largest economy but also obliterates Chinese people's achievements in working for a better way during the past century.
The collective memory of frustration, interiority and humiliation induced by the accumulated backwardness during the past 150 years has been passed down from generation to generation. Chinese people shook off poverty only in the past three decades, not long enough to help them rid themselves of self-contempt once and for all.
Chinese people are famous for their willingness to conduct self-examination, which helps pave the way for China's future development. For many countries in the world, blindly copying Western style development has lead to a dead end.
Let us be confident. Chinese people could, all by themselves, build theire nation into a better one. In some aspects, the Western world is more advanced than China, so we can take some lessons from their experiences.
A large country like China needs to maintain a sober and peaceful mind at all times because not doing so could be a risky price to pay especially with political choices. For individuals, it is understandable if they are hesitant or confused at times; but as a country, China needs to have a firm plan to development firmly.
The spirit of self-criticism is a form of self-confidence.
Kaixin OpEd – Time and time again Kaixin sees this attitude of uncritically absorbing attitudes from the ‘west’, in particular from young students.
Human Rights, Democracy and Freedom of Speech are mouthed time and again.
A little probing soon reveals that the concepts are little understood.
It is a right of passage for young people, in particular young tertiary students, to question society, to question the wisdom of their elders.
It is healthy.
Many of the young students have been dropped into ‘western’ society, they are experiencing culture and information overload.
They have not had enough time in China to learn about their society, culture and history to any depth, so they are susceptible, indeed vulnerable, to all these new ideas and ways of thinking.
Western society and way of thinking suites the west, China’s society and ways of thinking suite China.
Western society is rightly proud of its achievements, so too should Chinese society.
China has been through three centuries of turmoil, leading to the vast upheaval of the 20th century which saw the people of China take control of their destiny.
Mao found that governing is difficult and fraught with many unexpected challenges. He led China into turmoil and effectively isolated China from the world. This was not helped by the west and the USSR effectively isolating China from the International community.
In the 1970’s China took its place in the international community and from 1979 has not looked back.
The transformation in China over the last 30+ years has been profound.
From almost pre-industrial to post industrial in one generation.
This has solved many problems for China but has also raised many problems.
From isolation during the Mao era to full exposure in just one generation.
Add to this major technological advances, the Internet and computers.
No wonder the people of China are still finding their feet.
When thinking about the issues that challenge China, it is best to step back and consider them in terms of history.
Yes, some in society have not enjoyed the benefits of China’s economic growth. If we consider this in terms of the present, it is possible to be critical. If we think about it in terms of history, and in particular the plight of those people before 1949, we would not be as critical.
The standard of living for all people in China has risen dramatically since 1949, and in particular since 1979. Not uniformly and not without problems, but in general.
Young students seem to be focused on the present and few think in terms of history. That seems to be the preserve of their elders who have seen fifty or so years pass by.
The young studens questioning is good and should be encouraged.
What Kaixin fails to understand is the elders who left China many years ago, many in the 1980’s who criticise China and call for western values and institutions.
Kaixin hears these people and wonders, however when Kaixin wants to know about China, we listen to the people we know who are living in China.
Western Kaixin is influenced by Xiaosui who grew up in China. Who experienced the dark side of the Cultural Revolution. Who has seen the real China emerge from those dark days and steadily grow to take its place in the world.
Kaixin listens to Xiaosui because she has seen it all.
She did not run away and throw rocks at China; instead she stayed and helped China to regain its feet.
The people who left in the 1980’s and 1990’s are mostly living in a time warp, and their opinions should be seen as coming from that out-of-date time warp.
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Still Active In China, Google Hunts For New Business
While it continues to battle the Chinese government over censorship and privacy concerns, Google Inc. is pushing forward with a bid to find new business.
Unilever Issues Dim Sum Bonds
HONG KONG—The issuance of Chinese-currency debt by Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever N.V. highlights continued interest in yuan bonds despite regulations making it complicated to use that money within China.
Santander, CCB to Target Smaller China Towns
SHANGHAI—Spain's Banco Santander SA will take a 19.9% stake in a joint venture with China Construction Bank Corp. to provide banking services outside of China's major cities, an area of increasing interest to foreign financial institutions looking to make a mark in China.
The tie-up, which was flagged by executives from both banks early last year, will see the two sides initially invest 3.5 billion yuan ($534 million) in the joint venture. The venture will specialize in investing and managing "village and town banks," ...
N.Y.U. to Establish a Degree-Granting Campus in Shanghai
The Shanghai campus will give New York University a powerful presence in the world’s second largest economy.
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Closer Look: Fervent Hopes for a Feverish Housing Market
Government-subsidized housing may not be as effective as expected in calming China's property market
The Chinese government has long said that subsidized housing projects will be a key part of the battle against surging housing prices. Once considered a bold solution, public expectations have eroded as policymakers continue to lack imagination on tackling the issue of local government financing.
China May Revise Nuclear Power Target
An official from the China Electricity Council says China may reduce its 2020 nuclear energy capacity target
(Beijing) -- China is likely to reduce its 2020 development target for its nuclear power capacity by 10 million kilowatts, according to Wei Shaofeng, deputy director of the China Electricity Council.
The Age
Lurching to the left in a moral maze
Late last year the popular "Slaves of the West" Chinese-language website set a new high water mark in China's leftist resurgence.
Kaixin OpEd – Kaixin wonders if young John shouldn’t talk to an experienced senior journalist and stop getting his news from furtive people in dark corners.
Yes, there are people diss-satisfied in China, with 1.4 billion people you would have to have one or two cheesed off with the government.
Kaixin wonders what they would do if they got power. Probably much the same, and would make just as many mistakes. Opposition is easy, governing is hard. In government you have to make decisions with real consequences, not suggestion with no direct consequences unless taken up by the government.
Young John seems to be breathless with excitement whenever he uncovers a dissident, as though he has found something new.
The people Kaixin speaks to in China simply ignore them or roll their eyes.
All a bit silly really and not the least bit new.
Princelings and nepotism are discussed at length in China It has been part of Chinese culture for millennia, so it won’t change overnight.
Besides, it exists in the ‘west’, just a little more out of view.
Asia Times Online
PLA on board an Orient express
By Christina Lin
The tentacles of Chinese-built rail networks stretch far and wide, with lines to Tibet, high-speed connections to Southeast Asian neighbors and plans for a track to Iran passing through Central Asia. While China has done more than most to re-establish the Silk Route, some analysts are beginning to blow the whistle on the gains of such projects for its military mobilization.
Kaixin OpEd – A well informed article.
Kaixin thinks that the Iron Silk Road is more defensive rather than offensive, given the military reach of the United States.
Cold comfort for anti-nuclear Taiwanese
By Jou Ying-cheng
TAIPEI - Amid the shockwaves of Japan's ongoing post-quake nuclear crisis, nuclear energy seems to be emerging as a contentious issue for next year's presidential election in Taiwan, as opposition leader last week declared her intention to abandon nuclear power if elected.
Taiwan, sitting at West Pacific Rim earthquake zone like Japan, has three operational power plants and is building the fourth.
THE ROVING EYE
Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
By Pepe Escobar
Western moral uprightness on Libya to coalition Gulf countries goes something like this: If you sell us a lot of oil, buy our weapons, and smash al-Qaeda, that's fine; you may even kill your own people, provided it's dozens, not thousands. That's how Saudi Arabia can get away with anything. The forces of counter-revolution are now joined at the hip with the West.
Syrian sauce for the Chinese gander
By Peter Lee
The official Chinese mood over Libya is shaped by the speed with which a regime was stripped of legitimacy and exposed to military intervention, but whether it will shake the convictions of China's interventionist liberal hawks is another matter. The darkening fate of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, which models itself on China, is altogether more pertinent to Beijing's yearning for stability.
The issue in Libya is the astounding ease with which a regime that found itself at cross-purposes with the United States was unilaterally stripped of its legitimacy and exposed to military intervention through aggressive and creative interpretation of an ambiguous UN resolution - in a mere three days.
Kaixin OpEd - An insightful analysis
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Investors get picky about rare, exotic teas
Afficionados are now treating the leaf-based beverage with reverence
BEIJING - While many rich Chinese people are happy to fork out $2,000 on a bottle of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, one of the most expensive wines in the world, others are turning to a more traditional Chinese beverage with centuries of culture behind it.
Rare and exotic teas are fast developing into investment opportunities with the marketing potential that French vintage wines have possessed for decades.
Xinhua News Agency reported futures in the best quality Longjing (or Dragon Well) spring tea, the leaves of which will be picked before early April, have already sold out at 60,000 yuan ($9,146) a kilogram.
Tibet's achievements celebrated
LHASA - Padma Choling, chairman of the Tibet autonomous region, delivered a speech on Sunday to the Tibetan people in celebration of the Third Serfs Emancipation Day and promised more efforts for a new Tibet that is stable, united, democratic and well-developed.
An accreditation ceremony is held in Lhasa's Jokhang Temple on Saturday. Eight monks were certified to be Gashe, the highest level of attainment for monks studying the scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, during the service.
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Tibet marks Serfs Emancipation Day - VIDEO
Lhasa celebrates third annual Serfs Emancipation Day
LHASA - To spread the word about changes that have taken place in Tibet since the adoption of democratic reforms in 1959, the third Serfs Emancipation Day was celebrated on Monday throughout Lhasa, the capital of the autonomous region.
A ceremony celebrating Tibet's third Serfs Emancipation Day began on Monday in the square in front of the Potala Palace, a pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.
Cherry blossoms charm tourists in C China
An ancient building is seen through cherry blossoms in Wuhan University in Central China's Hubei province
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