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Gravestones of Chinese sailors to be repaired in England

By Wang Mingjie, Zhou Xingzuo and Zhang Yonghao (Int.) | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-02-04 09:43
 

Preservation experts will start repairing the gravesites of five Chinese sailors who died in the 1880s and were buried in a Newcastle cemetery, Northeast England.

The work will begin in April, after funding was raised for the project in an effort to better protect China's naval history.

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