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(230924) -- XI'AN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers load products at a company producing display devices near Xi'an International Port in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, March 17, 2022. The Chang'an China-Europe freight train service was launched in 2013, when China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative. In the past ten years, Xi'an International Port, the starting station of the Chang'an China-Europe freight trains, has been developed from a small cargo station to an international logistic hub. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

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New gymnastics element

ANTWERP, Belgium - Japan's Kenzo Shirai performs a Yurchenko triple twist layout during the vault of the artistic gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 30, 2013. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) named the element the Shirai-Kim element after the 17-year-old Japanese athlete as well as South Korean Kim Hee Hoon.

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New gymnastics element

ANTWERP, Belgium - A composite photo shows Japan's Kenzo Shirai performing a Yurchenko triple twist layout during the vault of the artistic gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 30, 2013. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) named the element the Shirai-Kim element after the 17-year-old Japanese athlete as well as South Korean Kim Hee Hoon.

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New gymnastics element

ANTWERP, Belgium - Japan's Kenzo Shirai performs a backward somersault with quadruple twists during the floor exercise of the artistic gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 30, 2013. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) named the element the Shirai element after the 17-year-old athlete.

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Converted EV embarks on demonstration tour

TOKYO, Japan - Isshu Sugawara (L), senior vice minister of economy, trade and industry, takes a test ride in an electric vehicle converted from the two-seat Caterham Super Seven, a British sports car, at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013, at a ceremony to mark the start of the EV's demonstration run around Japan. To his right is Tadashi Tateuchi, leader of the Japan Electric Vehicle Club. The EV, made by replacing a gasoline engine with motor, battery and other parts, will return to Tokyo on Nov. 17 after visiting 46 of Japan's 47 prefectures.

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Converted EV embarks on demonstration tour

TOKYO, Japan - An electric vehicle (front) converted from the two-seat Caterham Super Seven, a British sports car, leaves the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013, for a demonstration run around Japan. The converted EV, made by replacing a gasoline engine with motor, battery and other parts, will return to Tokyo on Nov. 17 after visiting 46 of Japan's 47 prefectures. The two EVs in the background will accompany it on the journey.

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Cam Ranh Bay base

CAM RANH, Vietnam - A Sept. 17, 2013, photo shows Vietnam's naval base in Cam Ranh Bay. The base is used for surveillance of the Spratly Islands, the subject of a territorial dispute between China and Vietnam.

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1st Japanese winner of America's Got Talent

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese dance performer Kenichi Ebina poses for photos in New York on Sept. 17, 2013. The following day, Ebina, 39, was announced as the winner of America's Got Talent, a popular talent show aired by the NBC television network. Ebina, who became the first Japanese winner of the show, won $1 million in prize money.

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Antares rocket

WALLOPS, United States - Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket is unveiled at the Wallops Flight Facility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia on Sept. 17, 2013. The rocket carrying the first unmanned Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to be launched the following day to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

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2 years after Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK, United States - Demonstrators protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17, 2013, two years after the Occupy Wall Street protests started there.

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Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow

MUNICH, Germany - CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) gets his pass away despite the attentions of Bayern Munich midfielder David Alaba during the second half of a Champions League soccer match in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2013. Munich won 3-0.

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Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow

MUNICH, Germany - CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) chases down Bayern Munich midfielder Frank Ribery during the first half of a Champions League soccer match in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2013. Munich won 3-0.

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Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow

MUNICH, Germany - CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) and Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller compete for the ball during the first half of a Champions League soccer match in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2013. Munich won 3-0.

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Old industrial facility

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2013, shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said the same day that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow

MUNICH, Germany - CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda (R) shrugs off the attentions of Bayern Munich defender Dante during the second half of a Champions League soccer match in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2013. Munich won 3-0.

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Old industrial facility

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2013, shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said the same day that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow

MUNICH, Germany - CSKA Moscow midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng compete for the ball during a Champions League soccer match in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2013. Munich won 3-0.

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Wearable terminal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Intelligent Glasses, a wearable terminal developed by NTT Docomo Inc. The mobile communications service provider said on Sept. 17, 2013, it will unveil the device at the CEATEC Japan high technology exhibition starting on Oct. 1, 2013, in Chiba east of Tokyo.

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New Datsun hatchback

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn unveils the Datsun GO+ seven-seat, three-row hatchback in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 17, 2013.

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3D search engine

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp. President Manabu Miyasaka (L) unveils a machine during an event in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2013, that uses a 3-D printer to produce search results as three-dimensional figures so that blind people can touch them.

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U.N. panel on human rights in N. Korea

GENEVA, Switzerland - Michael Kirby, head of the Commission of Inquiry that was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council, delivers an interim report on the panel's probe into the human rights situations in North Korea during a meeting of the council in Geneva on Sept. 17, 2013.

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Japan discusses collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) speaks at the outset of a session of a panel of experts at the premier's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2013. After a seven-month hiatus, the panel resumed discussions on whether to lift a self-imposed ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense in the face of security threats posed by China's maritime assertiveness and North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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Ex-Toyota Motor President Toyoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 1995 shows former Toyota Motor Corp. President Eiji Toyoda. Toyoda, honorary adviser of the company, died of heart failure at a hospital in Aichi Prefecture on the morning of Sept. 17, 2013, the company said. He was 100.

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Search for missing people after typhoon

TSU, Japan - A search for a missing woman and her daughter is conducted in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 17, 2013, after Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan's mainland the previous day.

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Top Marine in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The commanding general of U.S. Marine forces in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. John Wissler (L), and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima meet at the prefectural hall in Naha on Sept. 17, 2013. Wissler told the governor that MV-22 Osprey aircraft stationed at the Marines' Futenma Air Station in the prefecture could be dispatched to the disputed Senkaku Islands if needed.

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Old industrial facility

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2008 file photo shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said on Sept. 17, 2013, that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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LDP General Council meeting

Tokyo, Japan - Seiko Noda (standing), chair of the General Council of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a meeting of the council in Tokyo at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2013. (From front) Sanae Takaichi, head of the LDP Policy Research Council, LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba and Prime Minster Shinzo Abe.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a room at the Oe branch of the Fukuchiyama municipal office in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2013, a day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a boat stuck on a bridge in the Arashiyama district of Kyoto on Sept. 17, 2013, a day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Cabinet meeting

Tokyo, Japan - (From L) Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who doubles as finance minister, are pictured ahead of attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2013.

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Court order over death of children in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 17, 2013, shows a courtroom of the Sendai District Court in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, where the court ordered a kindergarten in the prefecture, hit hard by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, to pay 177 million yen in damages over the deaths of four children in a school bus that was swamped by high waves. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a damaged road in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2013, a day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - People clean up mud at a traditional "ryotei" Japanese restaurant in the Arashiyama district of Kyoto on Sept. 17, 2013, a day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Malala Yousafzai

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - Pakistan's teenage female education right advocate Malala Yousafzai waves in Birmingham, England, on Sept. 3, 2013. She was named one of the recipients of Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award on Sept. 17, 2013.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - A man cleans up mud at a traditional "ryotei" Japanese restaurant in the Arashiyama district of Kyoto on Sept. 17, 2013, a day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Malala Yousafzai

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - Pakistan's teenage female education right advocate Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech in Birmingham, England, on Sept. 3, 2013. She was named one of the recipients of Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award on Sept. 17, 2013.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, is unveiled in an experiment in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, is unveiled in an experiment in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Combination photos (from top to bottom) shows an experiment of the "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, unveiled in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Audi to begin selling A3 hatchback in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okita, president of Audi Japan K.K., unveils the new Audi A3 Sportback hatchback in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2013. The third generation of the A3 Sportback, featuring in-car Wi-Fi connectivity, will be available in Japan from Sept. 17.

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Audi to begin selling A3 hatchback in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Audi Japan K.K. unveils the new Audi A3 Sportback hatchback in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2013. The third generation of the A3 Sportback, featuring in-car Wi-Fi connectivity, will be available in Japan from Sept. 17.

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Panoramic photo shows evacuees of Great Kanto Earthquake

TOKYO, Japan - A 4.6-meter-long panoramic photo panel, showing around 300,000 evacuees who gathered at the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, is on display Aug. 17, 2013, at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum in Tokyo's Sumida Ward ahead of the 90th anniversary of the disaster Sept. 1.

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Construction under way at 9/11 Ground Zero

NEW YORK, United States - This Aug. 17 photo shows the construction site at Ground Zero for new buildings to replace the World Trade Center skyscrapers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack in New York. An official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the site, struck a confident note that the skyscraper will be completed in 2013. The authority provided Kyodo News with a photo opportunity at the site ahead of the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the United States.

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Construction under way at 9/11 Ground Zero

NEW YORK, United States - This Aug. 17 photo shows the construction site for the new 1 WTC skyscraper at Ground Zero of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack in New York. An official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the site, struck a confident note that the skyscraper will be completed in 2013. The authority provided Kyodo News with a photo opportunity at the site ahead of the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the United States.

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German expat sees good opportunities in China

STORY: German expat sees good opportunities in China DATELINE: Sept. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:47 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: SOUNDBITE (English): PETER HELIS, Chief Advisor of Guangzhou Development District Investment Promotion Bureau STORYLINE: Peter Helis, a German who has stayed in south China's Guangzhou for nearly 10 years, says in China, everything is possible, and that people should open their minds and see the opportunities. SOUNDBITE (English): PETER HELIS, Chief Advisor of Guangzhou Development District Investment Promotion Bureau "I've been living in Guangzhou for almost 10 years now, since 2013. I'm quite happy here, and I consider myself as Cantonese in some sense. In China, everything is possible. I will try to get this bird today. There's a kingfisher there. I think Guangzhou chose me. It's a lot of opportunities here. There was a job opening in Guangzhou in 2013, for the general manager of the German Chamber of Commerce. That's actually how I started my government

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Construction under way at 9/11 Ground Zero

NEW YORK, United States - This Aug. 17 photo shows the construction site at Ground Zero for new buildings to replace the World Trade Center skyscrapers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack in New York. An official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the site, struck a confident note that the skyscraper will be completed in 2013. The authority provided Kyodo News with a photo opportunity at the site ahead of the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the United States. (Kyodo)

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Construction under way at 9/11 Ground Zero

NEW YORK, United States - This Aug. 17 photo shows the construction site for the new 1 WTC skyscraper at Ground Zero of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack in New York. An official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the site, struck a confident note that the skyscraper will be completed in 2013. The authority provided Kyodo News with a photo opportunity at the site ahead of the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the United States. (Kyodo)