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Article: China focus: Celebrations held for 50th founding anniversary of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 1, 2005
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China focus: Celebrations held for 50th founding anniversary of
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
URUMQI, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- The 50th anniversary of the founding of
the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was celebrated at a grand
gathering in the regional capital, featured by a 50-gun solute, dove
flying, the issue of commemorative stamps and other activities.
The celebration began at 11:00 a.m. with China's national anthem
played and national flag hoisted amid the sounding of a 50-gun salute
and the flying of 5,000 doves.
The founding of the autonomous region on Oct. 1, 1955 marked a
"new historical phase of Xinjiang's development," Luo Gan, head of
the central government delegation, told ...