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    China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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    China's Building an Ultra-Modern Car-Free City from Scratch
    China is building an ultra-modern car-free city that'll house 80,000 people in "high-rise core housing". It's entirely walkable and surrounded by green space. It's designed to use less water, create less waste, and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
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    Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.
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    Ice Cream was first made in China!
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    In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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    The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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