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正A WAlK FoR PEACE ANd REMEMBRANCEQueen Margrethe II of Denmark walks across Peace Square during her visit to the Memorial Hall for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces in Nanjing,capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province,on April 27.     

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正CROSS-BORDER COLLABORATION Chinese soldiers march during the opening ceremony of the Peace Mission 2014 multinational anti-terror drill in Zhurihe,north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,on August 24.Some 7,000 troops from five of the six member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—China,Russia,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan—participated in the six-day exercise.     

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正OFFERING A HElPING HAND Chinese medical workers take a boy suspected to have contracted Ebola to the ward for observation in a hospital in Freetown,capital of Sierra Leone,on October 11.A group of 30 doctors and nurses from the Beijing-based 302 Military Hospital,which specializes in treating     

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正EXTENDING WARM GREETINGS Middle school students in Xingtai,north China’s Hebei Province,display greeting cards in celebration of World Hello Day on November 19.Everybody can participate in World Hello Day,which falls on November 21 every year,simply by greeting 10 or more others.The holiday,which originated as a response to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War,aims to demonstrate the importance of     

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正GIVING BLOOD,GIVING LIFE A man volunteers to have his blood drawn at a mobile blood drive in Bozhou,east China’s Anhui Province,on June 12.Many people across the nation stepped up to donate in celebration of World Blood Donor Day,which falls on June 14     

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正TRADITIONAL FUN Students of a primary school in Changchun,northeast China’s Jilin Province,take part in a makeshift dragon boat race to celebrate both International Children’s Day and the Dragon Boat Festival,which fall on     

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正Merry Christmas!A huge fir tree goes up at the north end of Qianmen Street,south of Tiananmen Square in Beijing,on December 18.Many shopping malls and restaurants across the country are decorated with Christmas trees,with Santa Clause greeting customers at the entrance and songs such as Jingle Bells gracing their ears.Even a few Chinese are buying Christmas decorations to adorn their homes for the Western holiday.     

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正A TRIBUTE TO MAOVisitors appreciate a statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the National Museum of China in Beijing on December 24,where Mao’s calligraphy works and contemporary artists’sculptures and paintings of him are currently on exhibition.December 26,2013,marks the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth.People     

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正JOINT MARITIME DRILLS A task force launches a simulated assault on a"hijacked"ship off the coastal city of Qingdao,east China’s Shandong Province,on April 23,as part of multi-national maritime drills.Warships,helicopters and marine corps from eight countries were organized in the water near Qingdao for exercises that focused on joint search and rescue operations.     

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正READING CHINA A man leafs through a new book at an exhibition booth of China during the London Book Fair 2014 on April 8. The three-day book fair opened that day, attracting nearly 1,500 publishing houses from over 100 countries and regions.Saviours Emergency responders conduct a rescue operation at the flooded Xiahaizi Coalmine in Qujing City,southwest China’s Yunnan Province,on April 7.Twenty-two miners were trapped underground by a flood early on that day.