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Site of Xanadu opens to visitors

Updated: 2011-07-18 15:48

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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Site of Xanadu opens to visitors

Tourists gather at a building of the Site of Xanadu, which officially opened to visitors on July 15. Twenty kilometers northeast of Shangdu County in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Site of Xanadu has a history of more than 740 years. On January 2011, the State Council approved to apply to include the Site of Xanadu as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.[Photo/Xinhua]

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