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I have had the privilege of witnessing the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic and now today celebrating the Seventieth Anniversary of Victory over Fascism. Today, my heart has been filled with excitement, especially when I was touched by appearance of the war veterans. W We owe them for the fact that they fought desperate struggle in the past so that there can be peace and prosperity now. I honour all veterans, Whether or not you were able to be present today. I salute you!
I hope for world peace, and never again war!
建国六十周年阅兵和庆祝反法西斯战争胜利七十周年阅兵，我都有幸在现场见证历史。今天在现场心里一直很激动，尤其当抗战老兵出场时更是感动，现在的太平盛世都是靠当年他们浴血奋战换来的，不管是今天在场还是没能来现场的老兵，向你们致敬！希望世界和平，永不再有战争！
Famous Chinese actor and national political advisor Jackie Chan took time off during the two sessions and rushed off to a recording studio in Beijing's Chaoyang District yesterday to record "Wake up Winter", the theme song for the application of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
"In the morning, I am working for the two sessions; in the afternoon, for the application of Olympics Games", Jackie Chan said with a sense of humor.
"Wake up Winter is actually a call to people around the world, an incessant eagerness for the Olympic Spirit and a longing for friendship between people and countries," songwriter Wang Jiuping explained.
A large number of well-known musicians both domestically and internationally are working on the song including Zhao Jialin, one of the main composers for "Little Apple", the song which went viral last year.
The Summer Palace hosted a farewell ceremony for the giant Rubber Duck on Thursday, in the presence of its creator Florentijn Hofman and movie star Jackie Chan.
The Summer Palace hosted a farewell ceremony for the giant Rubber Duck on Thursday, in the presence of its creator and Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, as well as movie star Jackie Chan.
Visitors to the Summer Palace in Beijing on Thursday bid a fond farewell to the giant floating Rubber Duck, a 26-meter-tall art installation which had been on display at the park's Kunming Lake since Sept. 26.
The Rubber Duck came to the Summer Palace on Sept. 26 during its second leg of its Beijing tour, after completing a 20-day display at Beijing's Garden Expo Park.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, dubbed the "father of the rubber duck," appeared at the ceremony along with Chinese kung fu star Jackie Chan, chairman of the Chinese Rubber Duck Fan Club.
Hofman said the Rubber Duck was a symbol of people's childhoods, in which a small rubber duck would float around in the bathtub. He hoped his creation would be evocative of "people's fondest memories" and the giant Rubber Duck world tour could contribute to world peace instead of war.
Chan, who arrived at the lake-side scene in an unexpected manner -- by dragon boat, echoed the notion, but said he was "too old to have a floating duck when he was young," but his son Jaycee Chan, also known by his Chinese name Fang Zuming, did have one.
The Rubber Duck is a present from the Netherlands, Hofman's native country, since the Dutch capital of Amsterdam was chosen as the guest of honor for the 2013 Beijing Design Week, an annual event that invites a foreign city to present the city's design sensibilities to Beijing citizens. "Design Goes Dutch" was this year's theme.
The art installation has immensely boosted the two parks' popularity. The Garden Expo Park received some 1 million visitors during the Rubber Duck's stay, and the number of tourists hit a historical high from Oct. 2 to 5, during China's national day holiday Golden Week (Oct.1 to 7), up to 100,000 per day.
The sudden influx of Rubber Duck fans has helped generate more than 100 million yuan (US$16.3 million) in admission fees for both parks. In the bigger picture, the service sector -- Rubber Duck product sales, restaurants, accommodation and transport -- was among the biggest beneficiaries in the Duck craze.
Fans who have visited the Rubber Duck displayed in Beijing claimed that the duck was "a nostalgic thing," though most of them admitted they did not have one when they were young because it was a typical Western toy, but "would immediately place it in tub water the next time" they take a bath.
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