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In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, men gather near a coal mine where a fire occurred on Monday night in Xinmi City in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan province, on Tuesday March 16, 2010. The electrical fire at the illegal coal mine in central China has left 25 people dead, the latest fatal accident to rock the country's mining industry.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, men gather near a coal mine where a fire occurred on Monday night in Xinmi City in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan province, on Tuesday March 16, 2010. The electrical fire at the illegal coal mine in central China has left 25 people dead, the latest fatal accident to rock the country's mining industry.

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In this Saturday March 13, 2010, photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, front, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walks in prior to the closing ceremony of the third session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

In this Saturday March 13, 2010, photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, front, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walks in prior to the closing ceremony of the third session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants appear on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants appear on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

AP 

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants walk on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants walk on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

AP 

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a Long March 4C carrier rocket carrying a remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan IX, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province, on Friday March 5, 2010.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a Long March 4C carrier rocket carrying a remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan IX, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province, on Friday March 5, 2010.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, a worker cycles past CRH high-speed trains at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT.

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, a worker cycles past CRH high-speed trains at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, workers clean a CRH high-speed train at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT.

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, workers clean a CRH high-speed train at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, a worker checks a CRH high-speed train at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT.

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 3, 2010, a worker checks a CRH high-speed train at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. China plans to expand its high-speed railway network to 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) by 2012, state news agency Xinhua reported. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.

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In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, local people watch two horses fight during the local traditional folk fair at Antai town in Rongshui county, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Friday Feb. 26, 2010. The annual "horse fighting," which has lasted for hundreds years among the local Miao ethnic people, attracted thousands of tourists from China and across the world, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, local people watch two horses fight during the local traditional folk fair at Antai town in Rongshui county, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Friday Feb. 26, 2010. The annual "horse fighting," which has lasted for hundreds years among the local Miao ethnic people, attracted thousands of tourists from China and across the world, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, job applicants are seen in the site of a job fair in Tianjin in north China, on Saturday Feb. 27, 2010. The fair attracted some 1,500 enterprises from Tianjin, Beijing and other northern China's provinces offering around 20,000 job vacancies, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, job applicants are seen in the site of a job fair in Tianjin in north China, on Saturday Feb. 27, 2010. The fair attracted some 1,500 enterprises from Tianjin, Beijing and other northern China's provinces offering around 20,000 job vacancies, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, local officials, their legs shown, inspect a dry pond in Mile County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. The worst drought in 60 years continue in Yunnan province, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, local officials, their legs shown, inspect a dry pond in Mile County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. The worst drought in 60 years continue in Yunnan province, Xinhua said.

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In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tai Shan, Xinhua said, is adapting well to life in his new home in southwest China's Sichuan province after returning to China. The panda will begin to receive visitors on March 5 after one-month quarantine.

In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tai Shan, Xinhua said, is adapting well to life in his new home in southwest China's Sichuan province after returning to China. The panda will begin to receive visitors on March 5 after one-month quarantine.

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In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tai Shan, Xinhua said, is adapting well to life in his new home in southwest China's Sichuan province after returning to China. The panda will begin to receive visitors on March 5 after one-month quarantine.

In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province. Tai Shan, Xinhua said, is adapting well to life in his new home in southwest China's Sichuan province after returning to China. The panda will begin to receive visitors on March 5 after one-month quarantine.

AP 

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, pedestrians walk in sand and dust on a street in Yulin City of northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Blowing sand hit Yulin on Saturday, causing poor visibility in the urban area, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, pedestrians walk in sand and dust on a street in Yulin City of northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Blowing sand hit Yulin on Saturday, causing poor visibility in the urban area, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, two white whales blow ring-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, two white whales blow ring-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, a white whale blows ring-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, a white whale blows ring-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, a white whale blows heart-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua Newws Agency, a white whale blows heart-shaped bubbles in the water at the Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. The white whales in the Polarland gained the skills as a new year gift for visitors after one-year of training, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Adm. Wallop Kerdphol, left front, Thailand's deputy chief of Defense Forces, and U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John, right front, salute as they review the parade at Royal Thai Navy's U-tapao Airport in Rayong Province, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Thailand and the United States have begun their annual Cobra Gold military exercise, with South Korea taking part for the first time.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Adm. Wallop Kerdphol, left front, Thailand's deputy chief of Defense Forces, and U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John, right front, salute as they review the parade at Royal Thai Navy's U-tapao Airport in Rayong Province, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Thailand and the United States have begun their annual Cobra Gold military exercise, with South Korea taking part for the first time.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a tanker burns after it is attacked by gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Gunmen attacked the vehicle carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua said.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a tanker burns after it is attacked by gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Gunmen attacked the vehicle carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua said.

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In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Hakka people, a subgroup of the Han people, make a traditional snack during a Hakka cultural event in Ganxian County, east China's Jiangxi Province. Xinhua reports the Hakka, whose ancestors are thought to have arrived centuries ago from what is today's central China, live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian today.

In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Hakka people, a subgroup of the Han people, make a traditional snack during a Hakka cultural event in Ganxian County, east China's Jiangxi Province. Xinhua reports the Hakka, whose ancestors are thought to have arrived centuries ago from what is today's central China, live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian today.

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In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, men gather near a coal mine where a fire occurred on Monday night in Xinmi City in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan province, on Tuesday March 16, 2010. The electrical fire at the illegal coal mine in central China has left 25 people dead, the latest fatal accident to rock the country's mining industry.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, men gather near a coal mine where a fire occurred on Monday night in Xinmi City in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan province, on Tuesday March 16, 2010. The electrical fire at the illegal coal mine in central China has left 25 people dead, the latest fatal accident to rock the country's mining industry.

AP 

In this Saturday March 13, 2010, photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, front, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walks in prior to the closing ceremony of the third session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

In this Saturday March 13, 2010, photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, front, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, walks in prior to the closing ceremony of the third session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

AP 

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants appear on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants appear on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

AP 

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants walk on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Miss Plump beauty pageant contestants walk on the stage at a shopping mall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Some 40 participants took part in the contest, showing wedding dress, evening dress and their acquirements.

AP 

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a Long March 4C carrier rocket carrying a remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan IX, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province, on Friday March 5, 2010.

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a Long March 4C carrier rocket carrying a remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan IX, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province, on Friday March 5, 2010.

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