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Cross-Strait Charter Flights Take-Off for Qingming Festival

On April 2, a China Eastern flight left Shanghai for Taipei, kicking off a series of seasonal cross-strait charter flights for the traditional Chinese tomb-sweeping festival, or Qingming Festival - CCTV News

from YouTube on Fri, Apr 04 2008

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