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Editor's note: Despite the devastation of natural disasters, struggle and misery in our daily lives, we all deserve a happy and good start to the New Year. As the Spring Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, dawns, we are warmed to witness people enjoy a happy reunion with their family members and share joy during the most exciting time of the year. Here we offer a collection of photos from those who have suffered turmoil in the previous year, but inspiringly will greet the New Year with a smile. |
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 Wu Changgen (R) and his family members pose for photos in front of their new government-built house in Bailianqiao village of Changxing county, East China's Zhejiang province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
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| New Year, new home |
| Spring Festival love from the law |
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 Officers from the Qinhuangdao Frontier Inspection Station play with a kid in a welfare house in North China's Hebei province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 A boy from an impoverished family shows the gifts he received from police officers of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
| A song for Sichuan at Spring Festival |
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 Local residents watch a show performed by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in quake-hit Mianzhu in Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 Ding Yi, a singer and a professor of the China Conservatory, shakes hands with a local resident while performing in quake-hit Mianzhu in Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
| The storm passes for rain ravaged Fujian |
| Free buses for home |
| Reunited and it feels so good |
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 Children who spend most of the year without their migrant parents pose for photos on a bus while attending an activity celebrating the upcoming Lunar New Year in Chongqing, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 Children reunited with their families cheer during a celebration for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 Children reunited with their families make dumplings during a celebration for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
| Festival celebration for pensioners, orphans |
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 Local residents in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian province, cheer during a get-together organized by the province’s Red Cross Society to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, Jan 26, 2011. A total of 200 pensioners, orphans and those from impoverished families attended the celebration. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 Wu Wenlie (R), 77, cheers with other elderly people who have no family during a celebration for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian province, Jan 26, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
