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| Olympic diving champions Guo Jingjing (L) and Wang Feng light a cauldron during the Jinan leg of the Olympic torch relay in Shandong province July 23,2008. |
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| Torchbearer Zhu Anting (L), a Qufu government official, poses with Li Ting from CCTV. The Qufu leg of the Olympic torch relay kicked off July 22, 2008. |
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| The Olympic torch relay begins its tour in Olympic co-host city Qingdao of East China's Shandong Province at 8:10 am local time on Monday. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday visited east China's port city of Qingdao to inspect preparatory work for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games' sailing event and local enterprises. |
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| A passenger makes contact with robot Fuwa at the Beijing Capital International Airport July 15, 2008. |
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| Students from Leiguzhen primary school in Beichuan county, one of the areas hit hardest by the May 12 earthquake, say goodbye to their teachers at Jinan railway station in Shandong Province on Monday. |
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| Members of China's armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympics. |
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| Police arrest "terrorists" during the "Taishan Mountain 2008" drill in Jinan, capital city of east China's Shandong province, June 30, 2008. The exercise aims to improve the city's ability to combat terrorism. |
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| A farmer plants rice seedlings in a piece of farmland beside makeshift tents in earthquake-affected Wenxian County, Northwest China's Gansu province, June 9, 2008. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao visited a Pakistani medical team in Longnan city in northwest China's Gansu Province Sunday afternoon. |
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| Hu Jintao (R), general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, shakes hands with Wu Poh-Hsiung, Chairman of Taiwan Kuomintang and his delegation |
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| Diggers, including PLA soldiers and armed police, use excavators and bulldozers to dig a diversion channel for a quake lake at Tangjiashan, Beichuan County |
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| Premier Wen Jiabao talks to a student who survived the earthquake during his inspection of a temporary school set up inside a tent in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 23, 2008. |
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| Millions of people in China and overseas observed three minutes of silence at 2:28 p.m. on Monday as they mourned the many killed in a deadly earthquake in Sichuan Province a week ago. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd, L) comforts villagers on Friday afternoon, May 16, 2008 during his visit to Beichuan County, Sichuan Province |
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| A high-speed passenger train jumped the track in the eastern province of Shandong early on Monday, striking another train and leaving 70 known dead and 416 injured as of late Monday |
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| An investor smiles in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Tianjin municipality April 24, 2008. |
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| Flames from a wreckage of a passenger plane are seen after it crashed in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo |
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| Athlete Kelly Holmes waves the Olympic Torch after lighting the Olympic Cauldron outside the O2 Arena in London April 6, 2008. |
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| The head priestess, Greece's actress Maria Nafpliotou, raises the torch of Olympic flame during the flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece |
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| NPC plenary meeting approves Wen Jiabao as Premier |
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| Chinese president Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to Japan in the near term |
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| A cultural project costing $4.2 billion will be built in Shandong province |
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| A mother escorts her baby twins who sit on a rickshaw at the site of the ancient fair of Zhoucun in Zibo |
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| Premier Wen Jiabao is in Hunan to help direct disaster relief work in the central Chinese province. |
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| Water quality in Qingdao will meet the standard for the Olympic sailing event |
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| Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda arrived in Beijing Thursday looking forward to taking ties with his country's key regional neighbor to a new level. |
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| China has jointed the world's select few powers that have the capabilities to engage in deep-space exploration. |
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| Tourists view the red maple leaves in the Quancheng Park of Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong Province, Nov. 20, 2007. The maple leaves turned red in Jinan creating a beautiful early winter view. |
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| Farmers in Linyi, Shandong, make bricks from a mixture of straw and earth that will be used to build energy-efficient houses. |
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| A Chinese naval ship left here Wednesday morning for a port call to Japan, the first such visit in the history of the naval forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. |
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| China and Singapore finalized a flagship eco-city project in Tianjin to consolidate bilateral ties. |
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| An auto show attracts many visitors in Jinan, Shandong Province. |
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| China's first lunar orbiter, Chang'e I, blasts off from its launch pad in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, at about 6:05 pm October 24, 2007. |
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| Delegates attend the closing session of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 21, 2007. |
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| Hu urged the province to fully exploit its advantages and take the lead in transforming the mode of economic growth in accordance with the Scientific Outlook on Development. |
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| Delegates of the Communist Party of China (CPC) gathered in central Beijing Monday morning to attend the year's most important political event that will chart aroadmap for the country's all-round development in the coming fiveyears. |
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| People look at a mega-long bus which is displayed in a square in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, October 10, 2007. |
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| Qingdao in East China's Shandong Province, the second largest external trade port of the country, achieved a freight turnover of more than 200 million tons from January 1 to September 30 |
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| Battleships take part in a joint maritime search and rescue drill in the northern sea area in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province September 29, 2007. |
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