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	<title>Hangzhou: news</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news.asp</link> 
	<description>Hangzhou news</description> 
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	<title>Ancient ploy shown at Wetland Museum</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2646</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-22 16:41:06</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[A visitor looks at straw boats at the China Wetland Museum. The straw boats are inspired by the Chinese idiom &quot;Borrowing enemy's arrows with straw boats.&quot; The idiom is derived from a ploy of Zhuge Liang (AD 181-234),......]]></description>
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	<title>Workers lay tracks on Metro Line 2</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2645</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-22 16:39:15</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Metro Line 2 is expected to open to service in the first half of next year. The 13 stations on the 18km subway are already taking shape, according to a report on hangzhou.com.cn.
About 41 percent of the track laying......]]></description>
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	<title>Hangzhou appoints two new vice mayors</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2644</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-22 16:36:38</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Xie Shuangcheng and Chen Hongying were appointed vice mayors of Hangzhou at a plenary meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th Municipal People's Congress yesterday.
Xie, 52, a native of Anji, Zhejiang Province,......]]></description>
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	<title>No free highways during Dragon Boat Festival</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2643</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-21 15:54:06</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[The toll-free policy will not apply to the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, traffic authorities said yesterday.
The State Council, or China's cabinet, last year approved a policy to waive highway tolls during major......]]></description>
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	<title>Manholes given an artistic touch</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2642</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-21 15:50:13</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Students of Zhejiang University of Media and Communications paint cartoons on manhole covers at the campus on Sunday. These cartoons enlivened the atmosphere of their campus life, some students said....]]></description>
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	<title>Summer is officially here</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2641</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-21 15:34:23</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Summer has arrived officially in Hangzhou, local weathermen said yesterday.
The advent of summer is marked by an average temperature of over 22 degrees Celsius for three straight days. The current warm spell will......]]></description>
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	<title>Hangzhou Citizens Travel Festival kicks off</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2640</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-20 17:17:23</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Local residents board a tourist bus at Qingchun Square yesterday, which was the National Tourism Day and the first day of the Hangzhou Citizens Travel Festival. The bus tour to Shanghai's Happy Valley amusement park......]]></description>
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	<title>116 couples wed at campus</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2639</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-20 15:08:28</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[A bride stands on the back of her bridegroom to sign on a large canvas at Zhejiang University Zijin Campus during a group wedding yesterday afternoon. A total of 116 couples, all graduates from the university and some......]]></description>
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	<title>Neolithic artifacts impress foreign scholars</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2638</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-20 15:03:53</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Participants of the international forum, &quot;Culture: Key to Sustainable Development,&quot; marvel at Neolithic jade carvings at the Liangzhu Culture Museum yesterday. More than 100 people attended the forum in Hangzhou as......]]></description>
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	<title>Top Chinese political advisor meets Greek PM</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2637</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-19 19:08:57</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Top Chinese political advisor Yu Zhengsheng yesterday met with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.
The meeting came ahead of the second annual conference of......]]></description>
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	<title>Top political advisor urges intl' ecological cooperation</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2636</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-18 19:38:04</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Top Chinese political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Saturday called for international cooperation in building ecological civilization at the second annual conference of the World Cultural Forum (Taihu, China), which began......]]></description>
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	<title>Tallest building evades fire appraisal</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2635</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-17 16:51:00</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[The tallest building under construction in Hangzhou faces a hefty fine for lacking fire department permit.
Xiaoshan District government has ordered the building's developer to halt construction. Without the permit,......]]></description>
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	<title>City sees birth of anti-crime association</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2634</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-17 16:46:17</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Hangzhou today set up an association for crime prevention and control, the first such NGO in China.
The association began with about 100 members who are from the media, financial institutions, trading firms, IT companies,......]]></description>
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	<title>Zhejiang calls off bird flu alarm</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2633</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-17 16:44:31</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[No H7N9 bird flu cases have been reported in Zhejiang Province for 28 days and the local government called off its emergency response scheme yesterday.
However, hospitals and health authorities will maintain vigilance......]]></description>
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	<title>Huang Kunming meets UNESCO official</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2632</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-16 17:02:43</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Hangzhou Party Secretary Huang Kunming yesterday met UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova who was here to attend the international forum on &quot;Culture: Key to Sustainable Development.&quot;
Huang thanked UNESCO for supporting......]]></description>
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	<title>Liangzhu bids for UNESCO heritage status</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2631</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-16 16:47:56</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[A man walks past photos of prehistoric artifacts unearthed in Liangzhu, northwest of Hangzhou. The city is applying for the UNESCO World Heritage status for Liangzhu, now a 25-square-kilometer archaeological park which......]]></description>
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	<title>Continuing education makes life colorful</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2630</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-16 15:30:45</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Xihu District residents perform Mexican dance at the founding ceremony of the Continuing Education Association recently. Ten institutions in the district performed songs, music, dances, Tai Chi and Yueju Opera and......]]></description>
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	<title>Heavy rains dispel hot spell tonight</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2629</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-15 17:47:01</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[The mercury shot up to 35.6 degrees Celsius yesterday, making it the hottest May 14 in history, the Hangzhou Meteorological Bureau said.
The previous record was set on May 14, 1980 when the temperature hit 34.1 degrees.
But......]]></description>
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	<title>Paintings of Ukrainian professor on display</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2627</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-15 16:42:31</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[Visitors admire oil works by Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Guida at Zhejiang Art Museum yesterday. The 109 paintings feature portraits, lotus ponds, and scenery of Hangzhou. Guida came to China twice a year as visiting......]]></description>
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	<title>Vintage train awaits visitors</title> 
	<link>http://www.hicenter.cn/news_detail.asp?id=2626</link>
	<pubDate>2013-5-15 16:41:04</pubDate> 
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	<description><![CDATA[A steam locomotive parks in the White Pagoda Park in Hangzhou, south of the Qiantang River. The vintage locomotive has been revamped to run on electricity and it had a test run on a 500-meter-long track in the park......]]></description>
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