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Political advisor calls for more support to "cultural symbolic city"

A Chinese political advisor has called for more support to a cultural symbolic project in the ancestral homes of Confucius and Mencius to make it a cultural "holy land" and "spiritual home" of the Chinese nation. The project in the ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Sun, Mar 09 2008

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