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Dough figurine and local cuisine for Merkel in Shenyang

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted with a miniature dough figurine and local cuisine, including preserved vegetables and pork, during her first visit to Shenyang city, in Northeast China's Liaoning province, on Tuesday. On the last stop of her three-day official visit to China, which began on June 12, Merkel visited the Shenyang Imperial Palace, where she was given a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)-style royal welcome and presented a dough figurine that resembled her. "It really looks like me," Merkel said after receiving the figurine presented by its maker, Yu Qiquan, an artist in Shenyang. Yu spent 10minutes sculpting the 25-centimeter-high figurine of Merkel, and he did not forget to include the necklace she was wearing.