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Slender West Lake — Shòu Xīhú Slender West Lake (Chinese: 瘦西湖 pinyin: shòu xīhú) is a well-known scenic spot in Yangzhou，Jiangsu province，China; it is a national park of China.

Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan announced Saturday that Shenzhou-9 spacecraft had accurately entered its orbit, calling the spaceship launch a success.

Thousands Hands Guanyin Students in "Thousands Hands Guanyin" outfits pose for graduation photos
千手观音qiānshǒu guānyīn：Thousands Hands Guanyin(Bodhisattva)

JIUQUAN, Gansu, June 13 (Xinhua) — China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission featuring a female astronaut.

Qiandao Lake–Qiāndǎo Hú Qiandao Lake (Chinese: 千岛湖, Pinyin: Qiāndǎo Hú, literally means Thousand Island Lake), a man-made lake located in Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, east of China, formed after the completion of the Xin'an River hydroelectric station. 1,078 large islands dot the lake and a few thousand smaller ones are scattered across it. That's the reason why it's called thousand island lake in Chinese. The lake covers an area of 573 km² and has a storage capacity of 17.8 km³. The islands in the lake cover about 86 km².

Chunyun — Chūnyùn  Chunyun (Chinese: 春运; pinyin: Chūnyùn, literally means spring transport), also referred to as the Spring Festival travel season or the Chunyun period, is a period of travel in China with extremely high traffic load around the time of the Chinese New Year. The period usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year's Day and lasts for around 40 days. The number of passenger journeys during the Chunyun period has exceeded the population of China, hitting over 2 billion in 2008. It has been called the largest annual human migration in the world. Rail transport experiences the biggest challenge during the period, and myriad social problems have emerged.