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China welcomes the New Year
President Hu Jintao put the country's economic tasks at the top of next year's agenda during a New Year address broadcast on Friday.
Christmas Village opens at 'China's North Pole'
Mohe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, as the nation's most northerly point, is known as China's North Pole. And now it's a new Christmas Village just like the Finnish one. 
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Chinese celebrating Christmas holiday
The younger generation and every king of retailer are embracing the Christmas holiday more than ever before
International celebrations in N China
142 internaional students attend the party to greet the upcoming Christmas and New Year at Inner Mongolia University of Technology in Hohhot Thursday.
Santa Claus descends on zoo
Animals at Xi'an Wildlife Zoo received special gifts from zookeepers before Christmas.
Holiday boyfriend put up for auction
If you were looking for something a bit different this Christmas, you could have placed a bid on renting a boyfriend for the holiday, with an iPad thrown in for the successful bidder.
Romance and shopping on itinerary
After putting a lot of thought into where to propose marriage to his girlfriend, 26-year-old Wu Ningsha from Changsha, Hunan province, finally decided to pop the question over a Christmas trip to Hong Kong.
Consumers splash out on buying gifts
After spending two hours browsing through the discounted foreign brands at a shopping mall in Beijing's Chaoyang district, 26-year-old Cheng Jia eventually decided to buy her husband a wallet for Christmas.
Celebrating Christmas with children in need of care
When the famous song, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, reechoing around a rehabilitation center, which cures children with cerebral palsy, on Dec 19 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, all the kids rolled into the "Father Christmas".
Parcel deliveries delayed by snow
A white Christmas is marked not only by snowmen, but also late gifts, according to shipping service customers in China and Europe.
New Year's Eve in Beijing