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Space exploration
Upper pic: China’s first man-made satellite #Dongfanghong 1 launched into space.
Lower pic: China’s #Tiangong space station under construction.
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China at the #Olympics
Upper pic: The PRC makes its Winter Olympics debut at Lake Placid, USA.
Lower pic: Team China is cheered by home crowd at the opening ceremony of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing is the only city to have hosted both summer and winter Olympics.
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Opening up to the world
Upper pic: People queue up to try the first McDonalds in Beijing.
Lower pic: Foreign fast food restaurants like the McDonalds have become a regular feature on Chinese streets.
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Safer, better #HongKong
Upper pic: Rioters and violence in the streets of Hong Kong before the national security legislation.
Lower pic: National & regional flags flying on calm, safe streets of Hong Kong celebrating the 25th anniversary of its return to China.
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Diplomacy
Upper pic: The then China's top diplomat Li Hongzhang arrives at the humiliating negotiation for indemnities to the Eight-Power Allied Forces.
Lower pic: A confident China represented by its top-level diplomats at the #Anchorage talks with the US.
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Ending poverty
Upper pic: A mother carrying her child crosses the Nujiang River by gliding down a steel cable in Lisu, Yunnan.
Lower pic: New bridge over the Nujiang River ends the transport function of the steel cable, which is now a tourist attraction.
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National Day parade
Upper pic: Mules & old field guns among meagerly equipped troops at the founding of the PRC.
Lower pic: DF-17 hypersonic missiles, among other self-manufactured weaponry, are unveiled on the 70th birthday of the PRC.
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#ForbiddenCity
Upper pic: The invading Eight-Power Allied Forces line up inside the imperial compound shrouded in gun smoke.
Lower pic: Now the glittering #PalaceMuseum, a top tourist attraction, receives millions of visitors per year.
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To watch the flag-raising ceremony on the National Day, hundreds of thousands of Chinese people began to wait at the Tiananmen Square as early as 1:30am. Pure love for the motherland.
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#C919, China's first homegrown large jetliner has obtained the type certificate. Thus it's taken a milestone step towards market operation.
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China has been a firm supporter of the #UN and #multilateralism. And with deeds not words.
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Flocks of wild red-crowned cranes migrating north were seen flying across the Songhua River to settle at its wetland habitat in NE China, which is the world's largest.
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Once a barren desert, now a serene oasis, the transition of north China's Youyu county mirrors the unremitting efforts of afforestation and ecological protection. It also helped lift locals out of poverty.
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Today is the Double Ninth Festival. Wish all seniors good health and happiness！
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October is the best time to appreciate chrysanthemum. In China National Botanical Garden, an ocean of various chrysanthemums are in full bloom.
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Shenzhou-14 taikonauts celebrate the National Day in space.
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