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  A craftsman adds color to a cloisonné bottle in Beijing. The Cloisonné Museum of the Beijing Cloisonné Factory is holding free workshops during February and March, allowing visitors to observe the ancient decoration technique
  The park generated record revenues of HK$4.27 billion ($550 million), up 18 percent from the previous fiscal year.
  A record 6.73 million people visited the park during the fiscal year, up 13 percent. Chinese mainland and overseas tourists accounted for two thirds of the total attendance.
  Andrew Kam, Managing Director of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, said the result was encouraging, adding that the attendance, hotel occupancy and guest spending levels continued to smash records.
   Made-in-China Titanic
  Australian billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build a modern replica of the Titanic, in cooperation with stateowned CSC Jinling Shipyard, based in east China’s Jiangsu Province.
  Interest around the world in Palmer’s Titanic II is growing, with passengers willing to shell out big bucks to hop on board.
  “We’ve probably had half a dozen people already offering more than $1 million to get on the maiden voyage,” said James McDonald, global marketing director of Palmer’s Blue Star Line.
  But the company won’t reveal how much the Titanic II will cost.
  According to the Blue Star Line, construction on the Titanic II is scheduled for February 26, and its maiden voyage from England to North America will begin in late 2016.
  The Titanic II will stay true to the design of the ill-fated original, but with more focus on a safety deck.


   Selling Cars Abroad
  Chinese carmaker Geely will start selling its Belarus-assembled cars in the eastern European country in February and in Russia this spring.
  Set up in 2011, the Belarusian- Chinese joint venture BelDzhi will first launch the Geely SC7, a sedan that will cost approximately $12,990. The company can assemble 10,000 cars a year.
  BelDzhi’s assembly facilities are located in Zhodino and Borisov.
  Plans are to market the Belarusian-Chinese vehicles in Kazakhstan and the EU in the future.
   Slow Production
  China’s non-ferrous metal production expanded at a slower pace last year compared with a year earlier.
  The total production of 10 kinds of non-ferrous metals grew 9.3 percent year on year to 36.91 million tons in 2012, down 1.3 percentage points, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).   A total of 8,057 major nonferrous metal producers tracked by the ministry cumulatively saw their profits decline 8.9 percent to 155.8 billion yuan ($24.81 billion).
  The MIIT explained that the sector was confronted with excessive production capacity, rising production costs and weak market demand in China and the rest of the world.
  The sector’s total production is expected to continue to grow at a moderate pace this year, and there is still no sufficient impetus to support a strong rebound in market demand due to a faltering economic recovery around the world.
   Connected to The Grid


  The No. 1 generating unit of Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant, located in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, is put into use on February 17.
  The picture shows ancillary facilities of the No. 1 generating unit.
  After the plant’s construction will be fully completed in 2016, it is expected to generate 45 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year.
   Numbers
   20,000
  Number of pirated books that were confiscated by local authorities in Zhoukou, central China’s Henan Province when authorities raided a publishing house suspected of printing phony books
   33%
  Year-on-year growth rate of the value of overseas bankcard transactions made by Chinese tourists during the Spring Festival holiday
   1.3 tln yuan
  Profits of centrally administered state-owned enterprises in 2012, up 2.7 percent year on year
   832.18 tons
  Amount of gold bought in China in 2012, an increase of 9.35 percent
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