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    Old Summer Palace to offer free entry to mark historic looting

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    2019-10-18 14:25:52Ecns.cn Editor : Mo Hong'e ECNS App Download
    Staff members clean up weeds at ruins of Yuanying Guan (Immense Ocean Observatory) at Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, May 23, 2018.  (Photo/China News Service)

    Staff members clean up weeds at ruins of Yuanying Guan (Immense Ocean Observatory) at Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, capital of China, May 23, 2018. (Photo/China News Service)

    (ECNS) -- Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, opens free to visitors on Friday as the former imperial garden in Beijing marks the 159 anniversary of its looting.

    The anniversary event includes an exhibition of 37 cultural relics retrieved from overseas. Some bronze sculptures were displayed at the National Museum of China during a show to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. 

    Located in northwest Beijing, Yuanmingyuan, built from 1709 onwards, had once been a resort for the imperial families of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The royal garden was pillaged and burned down by British and French aggressor troops in 1860 and again sacked and burned down in 1900 when the Eight-Power Allied Forces occupied Beijing.

     

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