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All the relevant parties, it is hoped, will exercise restraint, remain calm and avoid any provocative words or actions."

Lu Kang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, saying any unilateral sanctions must not hurt China's interests after Washington imposed additional sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea because of its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.

"We have to know what people really need in terms of cultural consumption before we design these products. And museums can find resources from their collections to express their own culture."

Shan Jixiang, director of Beijing's Palace Museum, saying the museum's sales of souvenirs last year surpassed 1 billion yuan ($154 million; 137 million euros).

"The pace of the outflows has not been surprising, compared with the speed of the inflows in previous years."

Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, speaking at the China Development Forum in Beijing, where he shrugged off concerns about the rapid decline of China's foreign exchange reserves.

(China Daily European Weekly 03/25/2016 page2)