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Article: China's National Museum to be enlarged
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 17, 2007
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China's National Museum to be enlarged
BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- China commenced a nearly two-year-
long enlargement project of the National Museum at the heart of its
capital on Saturday.
The National Museum, standing to the east of the Tian'anmen Square
in central Beijing, used to be one of the ten celebrated
constructions after the People's Republic of China was founded in
1949.
By now, the museum could hardly keep the increasing number of
collections and sophisticated facilities, said a source with the
museum.
According to the project ...