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| Passengers Challenge Spring Festival Price Hikes |
| China's practice of raising charges for jam-packed public transport services during Spring Festival has been challenged in the courts for the first time. |
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| NE China Decorates Spring Festival with Flowers and Knowledge |
| The Chinese have always taken books and flowers as the token of a rich and well-educated family. Many people sent their friends and relatives books and a bouquet of flowers to extend their best wishes during the Spring Festival. |
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| Icy Land Receives More Tourists |
| The growing popularity of ice and snow has made China's northernmost Heilongjiang Province one of the hottest tourism spots across the country during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday from January 24 to 30. |
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| Long, Winding Cultural History of Snake |
| On January 24, the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar, the nation bid farewell to the Year of Dragon and ushered in the Year of Snake. |
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| NE China Port City Sees More Visitors in Spring Festival Holiday |
| A total of 210,000 people from home and abroad visited Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, during the week-long Spring Festival holiday. |
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| Huge Crowds of Passengers Flocking to South China after Festival |
| The railway stations in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, have been crowded with migrant workers from the rural areas of central and east China in recent days following the Spring Festival. |
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| China's Subtropical Region Stages Ice Sculpture Show |
| Although ethnic people living in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a subtropical region in southwest China, seldom have the chance to see snow, an ice |
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| Busiest Time Coming for Railways |
| A flood of 4.1 million travelers are expected to head to major cities after the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year. |
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| Vice Chinese Premier Visits University Teachers and Students |
| Vice Chinese Premier Li Lanqing visited two senior professors in Beijing Normal University as well as two teachers and some students in the Central University for Nationalities Saturday, extending his cordial Lunar New Year greetings. |
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| Putin Greets Jiang Zemin on Lunar New Year |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin extended greetings to Chinese President Jiang Zemin on the first Chinese lunar New Year in the new century. |
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| Chinese Celebrate Spring Festival Holidays in New Ways |
| Rather than staying at home, more and more Chinese people prefer to travel during the Spring Festival holidays, the most important traditional holiday in China. |
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| Chinese celebrating Lunar New Year Festival |
| Peacocks and fresh flowers made China's lunar Chinese New Year Day dynamic and colorful in Kunming, known as the "Spring City" on a plateau in southwest China. |
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| Macao Chief Executive Presents Lunar New Year Message |
| Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), called for concerted efforts from the government and residents to revitalize the economy and achieve social progress. |
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| Vice-Premier Li Lanqing Extends Spring Festival Greetings |
| On the eve of the Chinese lunar New Year, Vice-Premier Li Lanqing called on and extended greetings to the armed police and public security police as well as journalists who are working during the holiday in Beijing. |
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| Chinese Leaders Extend Spring Festival Greetings |
| On the eve of the Chinese lunar new year, President Jiang Zemin extended greetings to the Chinese people of various ethnic groups including their compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as all overseas Chinese throughout the world. |
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| Nation Celebrates Year of Snake |
| China ushered in the Year of Snake, the first Lunar New Year in the 21st Century, amidst celebrations and festivities across the nation. |
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| Art Activities Dominant in Celebration of Spring Festival |
| Chinese traditional art performances have always played a major part in celebrating the Spring Festival, the country's most important traditional holiday, which falls on January 24 this year. |
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| Temple Fairs to Add Festivity to Lunar New Year |
| The Longtan Temple Fair and the Ditan Temple Fair started Monday morning in celebration of the Lunar New Year which begins January 24. |
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| Chinese Leaders Attend Spring Festival Party |
| A grand party was held Monday |
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| Chinese Preparing to Greet Lunar New Year |
| Busy, yet happy. Chinese are decorating their houses, cleaning the streets, going shopping and planning get-togethers as the traditional Lunar New Year counts down. |
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Introduction to Spring Festival
