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Ambassador visits children from quake-hit city(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-12 07:59 SOFIA -- Chinese Ambassador to Bulgaria Zhang Wanxue Sunday visited the Chinese students from quake-hit Chongqing Municipality who are in Bulgaria to recuperate.
Zhang and his wife brought gifts for every child and he said: "I'm so delighted to see you are high-spirited and healthy." He also encouraged them to make friends with the Bulgarian children and carry on the Chinese-Bulgarian friendship. More than 40 Chinese students from Chongqing began their 20-day rehabilitation tour to Bulgaria on Aug. 5. Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia have invited students in and around China's southwest Sichuan Province which was hit by a 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12 to recuperate. Over 1,000 Chinese children have recuperated in Russia since July 17. |
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