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.

- Death toll in mountain torrents in NW China's Gansu rises to 13
- Robot-themed restaurant integrates dining with technology
- China's summer box office surpasses 8b yuan
- Flash floods batter Gansu townships
- Shaolin Temple denies mass resignation of monks
- Emergency teams working around the clock to repair critical highway in Gansu