Video: The billion dollar firework party - guardian.co.uk:
"In Beijing, as with the rest of China, people saw in the lunar new year with a bang – spending an estimated billion dollars on celebratory fireworks. But, as Jonathan Watts reports, the year of the rat brings as many challenges as it does opportunities, not least keeping China’s soaring economy under control. In Beijing itself, people are looking forwards to a new year in which the city, and the country at large, step onto the world stage as never before with the Olympics"
"In Beijing, as with the rest of China, people saw in the lunar new year with a bang – spending an estimated billion dollars on celebratory fireworks. But, as Jonathan Watts reports, the year of the rat brings as many challenges as it does opportunities, not least keeping China’s soaring economy under control. In Beijing itself, people are looking forwards to a new year in which the city, and the country at large, step onto the world stage as never before with the Olympics"
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