Spreading the joy
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The mood in Hong Kong is celebratory - with a sea of red national and HKSAR flags, lanterns, and festive banners decorating streets, parks, shopping malls and residential buildings - as the special administrative region prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland in two days' time. China Daily recorded some of these memorable moments in Hong Kong's history.

- Creative fireworks show held in China's 'fireworks capital'
- Chinese scientists achieve net-negative greenhouse gas emissions via electrified catalysis
- At the gateway to China's resistance, memories of war echo 88 years on
- Mainland scholar outlines 10 fallacies in Lai's separatist narrative
- China's first ocean-level smart scientific research vessel delivered in Shanghai
- World's first somatic cell-cloned dzo born in Xizang