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    Summer tea set for a limited time in Beijing

    The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial Street is introducing a Chinese court-style afternoon tea set from June 16 to Sept 15. Joining forces with The Palace Gift, the jewelry brand authorized by the Palace Museum Cultural Products and Services, the hotel has…

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    Russian restaurant owner driven by passion

    Architect set up venue in Harbin 19 years ago and is carving out a career in writing. Strolling down the century-old Central Pedestrian Street in Harbin, tourists cannot miss the Russian restaurant or the remarkable story of its owner. For…

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    Spirited Away tops Chinese mainland box office

    BEIJING — Spirited Away,the 2001 Japanese animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, topped the Chinese mainland box office Friday with strong first-day performance, the China Movie Data Information Network said Saturday. The Oscar-winning film grossed over 53.4 million…

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    Animated film tells of Shanghai’s industrial past

    The animated film Kiangnan 1894 will be released during the National Day holiday in October. Set in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the story revolves around a teenager named A’lang, who accidentally becomes an apprentice in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory…

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    Dutch percussion ensemble performs at horticulture event

    Percussion ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag, from the Hague, performed at the International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 in Beijing’s Yanqing district, recently. And among the pieces it performed was one written by Chinese composer Guo Wenjing, entitled Xuan. The show, organized by…

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    Moderate easing on horizon in H2

    Central bank most likely to cut RRR of financial institutions, says analyst China’s monetary authorities may moderately ease their overall prudent policy stance in the second half of the year, helping to anchor economic growth and the stock market, analysts…

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    China’s endangered duck with the funny hair

    Along the meandering rivers of China’s far northeastern region, a distinctive migratory duck, the Chinese merganser struggles to survive. After 10 million years, the tree dweller is teetering on the brink of extinction. Only about 2,000 remain, experts estimate. Human…