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Article: Chinese Palace Lanterns Bring Prosperity
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 2, 1999
CopyrightCopyright 1999 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Foreign businesspeople and TV crews have been going to Tuntou
Village in Gaocheng City in north China's Hebei Province, which is
known for its palace lanterns, as the Spring Festival approaches.
All the 1,340 households in the village are involved in palace
lantern manufacturing. They have become rich since 1978, when the
reform and opening-up in China began, and palace lanterns, a symbol
of good luck and prosperity, have become more popular. The
village's total lantern output last year was more than 5 million
pairs, worth 87 million yuan (10.5 million U.S. dollars).
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