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- Wanted: older men for young women
- Court upholds sentences on Mekong River gang
- Boost for high-speed rail plans
- Getting back on track
- Farmer who drowned ill wife gets 5 years in jail
- Graft trials start with aide to ex-railways chief
- Red Cross failed to collect quake donations
- Largest rare earth producer halts for 3rd month
- China to crack down on "malicious" trademark registrations
- ‘Lost in Thailand’ becomes biggest grossing Chinese film
- Have You Heard…
- Brazil Taps China’s State Grid for Energy Project
- Dagong puts U.S. credit rating on negative watch list
- China Starts Longest Bullet-Train Line, Luring Air Travelers
- Break the ice to save the seals
- Agricultural authorities have culled about 95,000 chickens following an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in northwest China.
- Beijing has reiterated its opposition to provisions in a US defense bill that allow sales of F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan and acknowledge Japan's administration of the disputed Diaoyu Islands.
- China issues white paper on medical, health services
- Chinese court upholds death for Mekong murderers
| Wanted: older men for young women Posted: 26 Dec 2012 09:10 AM PST Most young women in China would prefer to date men 10 years older than themselves, a nationwide survey has found. They told researchers they preferred older men because they were more attractive, wealthier and better able to take care of them. According to the survey of 98,000 men and women across the country, 70 percent of women aged between 18 and 25 preferred older men. Of those, about 64 percent were hoping to have older boyfriends, 17 percent had dated older men and the rest expressed a preference for older men over men their own age. However, the women were concerned that such relationships might not please their parents and that an older man might have a family already or could be too mature for them to handle. According to the survey, published by the Training and Communication Center of the National Population and Family planning Commission, together with Beijing-based wedding website jiayuan.com, the country has 249 million unmarried adults. A nationwide census report in November 2010 showed that nearly 12 million men aged 30 to 39 were single and hoping to marry younger women. The survey also found that both men and women were becoming more open-minded about sex with virginity unimportant in a future spouse. Some 84 percent of men and 73 percent of women said they didn't care whether their future spouse was a virgin or not. But when it came to living together, 86 percent of men were happy with idea of living together before marriage, compared to 36 percent of women. |
| Court upholds sentences on Mekong River gang Posted: 26 Dec 2012 09:09 AM PST THE appeals of six people convicted in connection with the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year have been rejected. A Chinese court upheld the death penalties on Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham (pictured above during yesterday's hearing) and three of his right-hand men. The Provincial Higher People's Court of Yunnan also upheld sentences on two other Myanmar convicts. Zha Bo had been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve while Zha Tuobo had been jailed for eight years. All six had been convicted of crimes including murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping and hijacking by a court in Kunming, capital of Yunnan, in November. Nicknamed "The Godfather," Naw Kham was the boss of the largest illegal armed drug trafficking gang on the Mekong River, which flows through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The gang was busted earlier this year in a joint operation by police from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand after the sailors' murders triggered calls to rein in rampant crime in the border region. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Boost for high-speed rail plans Posted: 26 Dec 2012 09:07 AM PST The world's longest high-speed rail line, which spans over half of China, began operating yesterday, further cementing the country's high-speed railway development ambitions. The opening of the 2,298 kilometer line was commemorated by the 9am departure of a train from Beijing to Guangzhou. Another train left Guangzhou at 10am. Running at an average speed of 300km per hour, the new route cuts the travel time between the two cities from over 20 hours to about eight. A total of 155 pairs of trains will run on the new line daily and alternative schedules have been made for weekends and peak travel times, the Ministry of Railways said. There will still be 183 pairs of trains running daily on the old Beijing-Guangzhou line that runs parallel to the high-speed line, allaying concerns that the new line will increase passengers' travel costs. A second-class seat on the new high-speed line costs 865 yuan (US$138), while a sleeper on the old line sells for around 430 yuan. G801, the first train from Beijing yesterday, is comfortable and more passenger-friendly, according to reporters. The high speed did not seem to have an effect on comfort, but it did make cell phone connections unstable, they said. The line has a string of measures in place to ensure safety, a major concern for high-speed rail travel since a bullet train crash near south China's city of Wenzhou left 40 people dead in July 2011. The measures include boosting maintenance for fixed equipment and mobile devices onboard and improving the control system to address problems that could occur during extreme weather, said Sun Shuli, a chief engineer. The Wenzhou accident was blamed on faulty signaling equipment and improper management. Zhang Hongsheng, who has worked as a bullet train mechanic since China's first high-speed train made its debut in 2007, said inspections on high-speed trains were now conducted on an hourly basis to ensure safety. "We also maintain regular risk checks and timely communication with the train driver, the conductor and the crew," Zhang said. "I will definitely take the high-speed rail going between Beijing and Wuhan. It only takes four and a half hours," said Feng Qi, a passenger from Wuhan, a central China city on the Beijing-Guangzhou line. By 2015, China aims to have around 120,000km of rails in operation, including 18,000 of high-speed rails and an express railway network reaching 40,000km that allows speeds of over 160kph. Preparations for a new high-speed line linking the central Chinese cities of Zhengzhou and Xuzhou are under way. The line will intersect the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail line and the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed rail line, which went into operation on June 30, 2011. |
| Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:41 AM PST CHINA hopes Japan's new government will work with China to overcome difficulties in bilateral relations and get them back on the track of normal development, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said yesterday. Hua Chunying had been asked by reporters what China expected from Japan and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She said sound and stable development of relations was in the interests of both countries. |
| Farmer who drowned ill wife gets 5 years in jail Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST A farmer who drowned his wife, who was paralyzed and in pain, has been sentenced to five years in prison for murder by a court in Lanzhou in northwest China's Gansu Province, the Lanzhou Morning Post reported yesterday. Jia Zhengwu, 38, pushed his wife, Zhang Xiaojun, in her wheelchair into the Yellow River on an April night in 2011. Zhang had tried to kill herself after years of suffering, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court said on Tuesday. The court said Jia, from Gansu's Jingning County had taken good care of his bedridden wife for years and didn't kill her for an evil purpose, and thus got a lesser penalty. But the court rejected his lawyer's argument that it should be classified as a mercy killing, the paper said. Zhang was diagnosed in 2003 with ankylosing spondylitis, or chronic inflammation of the spine, which causes back pain and stiffness. She had been paralyzed since 2007. Her treatment also nearly bankrupted her family. In Jia's first trial, held in October, he sobbed, saying he did it after she had spent 12 hours begging him to kill her when the couple strolled along the river bank in Lanzhou. "I told her not to lose the will to live because I would make every effort to cure her. But she said we had huge debts and she couldn't pass the burden to our two children," he added. The family had spent 180,000 yuan (US$28,840) on medical treatment. Despite huge expenses, Zhang's condition didn't improve. She became depressed and told her family she wanted to die, the court found. |
| Graft trials start with aide to ex-railways chief Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST THE former boss of a state-owned transport company and reported right-hand man to Liu Zhijun, the disgraced former railways minister, faced graft charges in court yesterday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The trial of Luo Jinbao is the opening salvo in court of a series of graft cases that have entangled officials with the Ministry of Railways. Luo, former board chairman of China Railway Container Transport Co Ltd, was charged with 32 counts of bribery when he was an official with the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan high-speed route and railway head in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Luo was appointed to head the transport company in April 2010. Earlier reports described him as a middleman between Liu and businesswoman Ding Shumiao. Ding, 57, was chairwoman of Beijing Boyou Investment Management Corp. She illegally profited from a number of railway projects up to 800 million yuan (US$128 million), investigators said. Luo was removed from his post in October 2010 and placed under investigation at the beginning of 2011, when authorities also started probing Ding, Caixin.com reported. Liu was probed in February 2011 and expelled from the Party this May. At least eight senior officials at the railway ministry have been sacked in the past two years, Caixin said. Large-scale graft and safety problems at the ministry came to light after a high-speed train collision in July 2011 that killed 40 passengers and injured 172 others. |
| Red Cross failed to collect quake donations Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST THE Red Cross Society of China said it is investigating its branch in southwest China after it was accused of leaving hundreds of donation boxes uncollected with the money inside growing mold. The branch, the Red Cross society in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, was reported to have set up hundreds of donation boxes in public venues in 2008 after a devastating earthquake struck the province, Beijing News reported. But those donation boxes were left unattended until June of this year, and many of them were heavily damaged, with some parts stolen. The rest of them, about 500 produced by two companies, were abandoned in a warehouse, said the newspaper. Photos of the abandoned donation boxes show that paper money inside them has gotten moldy. Advertising leaflets and other rubbish were also seen inside the boxes. The 1-meter-tall boxes have TV screens on the top to play charity videos or ads. According to an official with Maisheng Investment and Management Co, the Chengdu Red Cross signed a contract with the company to install 3,000 donation boxes in Chengdu's public venues after the earthquake on May 12, 2008. The official told the newspaper that the contract was signed on June 25, 2008, and that Maisheng and another company would invest in building and installing the boxes, while they could play advertising videos on the boxes' screens to earn money. The contract requires that the Chengdu Red Cross collect cash from the boxes regularly, but it didn't say who would be responsible if the devices are broken or money left uncollected. Maisheng invested 5 million yuan (US$801,205) in a plan to install 1,000 donation boxes in 2008, which would have been the one third of the 3,000 in the contract. But after they set up 726 of the boxes, the Chengdu Red Cross violated the contract due to "changes of personnel," the Maisheng official told the newspaper. Installation of the remaining 274 boxes was delayed, and after the company negotiated with the Chengdu Red Cross "over hundreds of times," the problem is still not solved, the official added. A senior Maisheng official surnamed Wei said that of the 726 boxes the company originally installed, only 391 are still in public venues and only 190 are still functioning properly. The Chengdu Red Cross sent officials to the warehouse to count the cash in the boxes this June. It announced later that it had received 6,116 yuan from donors. |
| Largest rare earth producer halts for 3rd month Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:38 AM PST  Source: By Wang Zhuoqiong (chinadaily.com.cn) Baosteel, China's largest rare earth producer, announced on Tuesday that it had continued suspending smelting and separation work for the third month in an bid to counter recent falls in rare earth prices. But industry analysts said the move is also in response to over-supply in the market. Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech has achieved its annual production target for this year. Prices of rare earths, which comprise 17 elements used in many important technological products including missile systems and hybrid cars, soared since 2009. But last year sharp falls started to occur in the price of some rare earth oxides. Du Shuaibing, an analyst at Baichuan Information, which focuses on analyzing the raw materials market, said the price and demand of the limited resources are expected to grow next year thanks to the economic recovery. |
| China to crack down on "malicious" trademark registrations Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:36 AM PST  Source: Reuters (Reuters) – China plans to change the law to crackdown on "malicious" trademark registrations, state media said on Monday, after a series of cases in which well-know international brands and individuals have had their names or copyright misused. Basketball legend Michael Jordan is one of the latest to accuse a company of using his name without permission, and French luxury group Hermes International SCA (HRMS.PA) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) have faced trademark problems too. The proposed amendment will offer protection to major international brands, giving copyright owners the right to ban others from registering their trademarks or from using similar ones, even if such trademarks are not registered, the official Xinhua news agency reported. "The draft is intended to curb the malicious registration of trademarks," Xinhua said. The country's legislature – which performs a largely rubber stamp role – will discuss the amendment this week, it said, without saying when the new rules could be put in place or providing other details. The move comes after basketball star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit in China in February against a Chinese sportswear company, accusing the firm of unauthorized use of his name. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recipient and former Chicago Bulls star said that Qiaodan Sports, a company located in the southern Fujian province, had built its business around his Chinese name "Qiaodan" and jersey number without his permission. The lawsuit has yet to go to trial, Chinese media have reported. France's Hermes International SCA (HRMS.PA) has also had problems in China with its trademark, and in July Apple Inc (AAPL.O) agreed to pay $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a protracted legal dispute over the iPad trademark in China. China has insisted it is serious about tackling intellectual property violations. |
| ‘Lost in Thailand’ becomes biggest grossing Chinese film Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:21 AM PST  Source: CRI via china.org.cn Chinese cinema has witnessed a miracle: low-budget film "Lost in Thailand" has just become the most bankable Chinese film of all time. With a budget of 30 million yuan, "Lost in Thailand" follows three Chinese men who meet on their trips to Thailand, where hilarity ensues. Actor Xu Zheng made his directorial debut with the film, in which he costars with Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo. The film opened on December 12 and quickly became popular via word of mouth. It was given 8.1 out of 10 on the popular Website Douban.com, a score rated by nearly 120,000 viewers. With the 3-day New Year holiday beginning on January 1, the film is well on track to becoming the first Chinese film ever to pass the 1-billion-yuan threshold, industrial experts predict. |
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| Brazil Taps China’s State Grid for Energy Project Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:42 AM PST  Source: Wall Street Journal by Wayne Ma BEIJING—State Grid Corp. of China said it was chosen by the Brazilian government to build a power transmission project for 910 million reais ($438 million), marking its latest effort to invest in Brazil and elsewhere abroad. The project includes a 967-kilometer, or 600-mile, transmission line. Once completed, State Grid said, it will operate a total of 9,931 kilometers, or 6,170 miles, of transmission lines in Brazil. Brazil has been a target market of State Grid as it seeks assets abroad. Such investments can provide higher returns compared with similar projects in China. Like many state-controlled companies, State Grid is heavily regulated by Beijing, which worries about the impact of passing on higher power prices to consumers and businesses. State Grid aims to more than quadruple its overseas assets from $8 billion to at least $30 billion by 2020, company general manager Liu Zhenya said in November. Overseas investments would account for 10% of the company's assets by the end of this decade, up from 2% currently, he added. The company is seeking to invest $5 billion in Brazil over the next five years, focusing primarily on transmission and generation, its chief executive, Cai Hongxian, said earlier this year. State Grid won the license along with minority partners Companhia Paranaense de Energia, CPLE6.BR -1.82%or Copel, and Furnas Centrais Eletricas SA. Copel is controlled by the government of the southern state of Parana, while Furnas is a unit of federally controlled utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, or Eletrobras. The project will have first-year allowable revenue of 100 million reais, State Grid said in a statement on its website, meaning its revenue would be capped at that level. It includes the 500-kilovolt transmission line as well four 500-kilovolt transformer substations. In May, State Grid said it would buy seven high-voltage electricity transmission distributors in Brazil from Spanish construction firm Actividades de Construcción y Servicios SA and its subsidiaries for 1.86 billion reais, including debt. That deal was State Grid's second major investment in Brazil after it bought seven electricity transmission distributors in 2010 for $989 million. Other overseas investments by State Grid include a 40% stake in National Grid Corp. of the Philippines in 2009 and a 25% stake in Portugal's national grid company, Redes Energéticas Nacionais, this year. In November, State Grid bought a stake in South Australia state power grid operator ElectraNet without disclosing the financial terms of the deal.   |
| Dagong puts U.S. credit rating on negative watch list Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:44 AM PST  Source: Xinhua BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese rating agency Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. on Tuesday announced that it has put the local and foreign currency sovereign credit ratings of the U.S. on a negative watch list. Therefore, it will be difficult to form a long-term consensus on solving the debt problem, it said. The debt burden of the U.S. federal government increased 9.1 percent year on year in 2011 and 11.7 percent in 2012, far exceeding the country's nominal GDP growth rate of 3.9 percent in 2011 and 3.4 percent in 2012, Dagong said. Dagong said it expects the outstanding debt of the U.S. to rise to 104.8 percent of its GDP and 608.7 percent of its fiscal revenues by the end of 2012, indicating that its solvency is experiencing a descending trend. "Due to the pending fiscal cliff, the U.S. economy is likely to fall into recession in 2013 and stay weak in the long-term, which will further weaken the material basis for the government to repay debt," the statement said. On Aug. 2, 2011, Dagong downgraded both the local and foreign currency sovereign credit ratings of the U.S. from A+ to A, each with a negative outlook.   |
| China Starts Longest Bullet-Train Line, Luring Air Travelers Posted: 26 Dec 2012 10:48 AM PST  Source: Bloomberg News By Jasmine Wang China started its 2,298-kilometer (1,428-mile) high-speed train line, the longest in the world, as the nation boosts investment in rail networks, intensifying competition for airlines. The new line, which will eventually connect to Hong Kong, is part of the nation's plan to build a 16,000-kilometer high- speed rail network by 2015, undeterred by a deadly bullet-train accident last year. The new service may lure air travelers and prompt China Southern Airlines Co. (1055) and Air China Ltd. (601111) to cut fares, according to Barclays Plc. "The continued development of the high-speed train network will marginalize short-haul domestic air routes," Barclays analysts Patrick Xu and Jon Windham wrote in a note to clients last week. It will "exacerbate the competition on long-haul domestic routes and depress margins." China has increased spending on rail projects this year as the government sought to revive growth in the world's second- biggest economy. The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, earlier this month approved a 63.7 billion-yuan ($10 billion) subway construction plan in Changsha city, Hunan province. Train Crash In September, the agency approved subway projects in 18 cities, inter-city rail projects and road construction plans. Rail construction had slowed last year after 40 people were killed in a bullet-train crash near the eastern city of Wenzhou. "China's central government invested a lot this year in rail to revive economic growth," said James Chung, a Shanghai- based analyst at Masterlink Securities Corp. (2856) "Fixed-asset investment can boost growth quickly." The line linking capital Beijing with Pearl River Delta's Guangzhou goes through five provinces from the north to the south. It also connects to the existing high-speed rail lines including Beijing-Shanghai and Guangzhou-Shenzhen, according to the Ministry of Railways. The fastest bullet-train on the new line has ticket prices starting from 865 yuan ($139), about 73 percent of the lowest air fare on the route, Barclays said Dec. 21. Discount Offers For Dec. 26 flights between Beijing and Wuhan, a key destination on the line, China Southern offered a discount of as much as 53 percent, according to Ctrip.com, the country's biggest travel portal. Air China gave a 50 percent discount on that day, the website showed Dec. 24. The Beijing-Guangzhou line will also step up competition for China Southern's Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo services between the cities, an about three-hour flight. High-speed train services in China have lured travelers from flights that often suffer delays because of airspace restrictions and poor weather. The nation's carriers flew 267.5 million passengers in the first ten months of 2012, 9 percent more than a year earlier, according to data by the aviation regulator. Nationwide rail passengers rose 4.6 percent to 1.7 billion through November, according to the rail ministry. It didn't provide passenger numbers for high-speed railways. In Hong Kong, about 8,000 workers are engaged in the construction of a HK$66.9 billion ($8.6 billion) 26-kilometer underground railway, which will run from downtown Hong Kong to the Chinese border and connect to the Beijing-Guangzhou line, builder MTR Corp (66) said. Kowloon Terminus Piling of the underground West Kowloon Terminus has been completed. Excavation and tunneling works are in progress, MTR, the city's subway operator, said in an e-mailed statement. The Hong Kong section of the express rail link, expected to be completed in 2015, may carry about 99,000 passengers a day in 2016, it said. The 11-hectare terminus, which will have customs and immigration facilities, is located next to the city's tallest building International Commerce Centre. It is also in the vicinity of the planned West Kowloon Cultural District, an airport express station and a subway station. Regional Hub The link "will facilitate the social and economic integration of Hong Kong with cities in the Pearl River Delta as well as other major cities in the mainland," MTR said. It "will enhance Hong Kong's position as a regional hub." China's Ministry of Railways didn't publish a total investment amount for the new high-speed line because it was developed in parts and then connected. The Wuhan-Guangzhou section, which extends 1,069 kilometers and began operating a year ago, cost 116.6 billion yuan. Another landmark Chinese high-speed railway, the 1,318- kilometer Beijing to Shanghai link that started operating in June 2011, cost 220.9 billion yuan. The ministry said the Beijing-Guangzhou line is "one of the most sophisticated high-speed railways" in the country. Disaster prevention and monitoring systems have been strengthened and a risk control system has been set up to ensure the network's safety, it said.   |
| Break the ice to save the seals Posted: 26 Dec 2012 02:20 AM PST A seal emerges through a man-made opening in a frozen pool in Yantai City, Shandong Province. Park workers at the Yantai Fortress Resort today broke up the frozen surface of the pool to help trapped seals and fed them with food and vitamin pills. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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| China issues white paper on medical, health services Posted: 26 Dec 2012 12:20 AM PST CHINA'S central government today issued a white paper on the country's medical and health services, noting that medical and health care systems covering both urban and rural residents have taken shape. The white paper, "Medical and Health Services in China", was released by the Information Office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, saying that China has kept advancing the reform of its health care system to ensure that every resident has access to safe, effective, convenient and affordable services. The paper revealed that the health of the Chinese people is now among the top in developing countries with an overall life expectancy of 74.8 years in 2010, 72.4 years for males and 77.4 years for females. The mortality rate of children under five has kept dropping from 34.9 per thousand in 2002 to 15.6 per thousand in 2011, attaining ahead of schedule the UN Millennium Development Goal in this regard, the white paper said. The infant mortality rate had gone down from 29.2 per thousand in 2002 to 12.1 per thousand in 2011, it said. |
| Chinese court upholds death for Mekong murderers Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:15 PM PST A Chinese court today rejected appeals from six people convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year. The court upheld death penalties for the case's prime convicts -- the Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham and three of his right-hand men. The Provincial Higher People's Court of Yunnan also sustained sentences for the two other Myanmar convicts, known by their Chinese names Zha Bo and Zha Tuobo. They were handed a death sentence with two-year reprieve and eight years in prison, respectively. The six were convicted of intentional homicide, drug trafficking, kidnapping and hijacking by a local court in Kunming, capital of Yunnan, in November. Nicknamed "The Godfather," Naw Kham was the boss of the largest illegal armed drug trafficking gang on the Mekong River, which flows through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The gang was busted earlier this year in a joint operation conducted by police from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand after the brutal murders of Chinese sailors triggered calls to rein in rampant crime in the border region. Naw Kham's gang was found to have colluded with Thai soldiers and to have organized an attack on two Chinese cargo ships in October last year, gunning down 13 Chinese sailors and trafficking drugs. The gang was also involved in another kidnapping-for-ransom case targeting Chinese citizens on the Mekong in April last year, according to the court. All six appealed their sentences after the trial in November. Naw Kham's lawyer pleaded for a reduced sentence on the grounds that his client was ordered to pay 6 million yuan (about US$953,895) in compensation to the victims' families. The provincial higher court heard the appeals on December 20. In the verdict released today, the court said the appeals were rejected due to the "severe outcome" of the crimes. The death penalties for Naw Kham and three of his subordinates will be submitted to the Supreme People's Court in Beijing for review prior to the executions, the court said. Legal experts said the trial shows China is capable of protecting its citizens and any criminal violation against its people will be subject to punishment in accordance with the law. "I believe the death penalty for Naw Kham is appropriate, or my brother and sister-in-law will not rest in peace," He Xilun, the younger brother of slain sailor He Xixing, told Xinhua in an interview in November. |
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