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Autistic girl holds piano recital on birthday

To mark her 18th birthday, Ding Ziying, an autistic girl in Chengdu, Sichuan province, recently held a solo piano performance. She completed 10 Chinese and foreign pieces, including Cowboy Cavatina, Fountain, Chanty of the Ussuri River and Clouds Chasing the Moon.

Ding was diagnosed with autism when she was 5. As she was too energetic, her mother Lan Li found a piano instructor to teach her and to calm her down.