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Bo Xilai, Secretary of Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, attends a meeting during the annual National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 6, 2011 in Beijing, China. Known as 'liang hui,' or 'two organizations', it consists of meetings of China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), and its advisory auxiliary, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).Feng Li/Getty Images/The Canadian Press

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Cutline: Residents of the central Chinese city of Chongqing gather in in a park to sing songs of the Cultural Revolution, part of a "red revival" in the city.Tang Ming for The Globe and Mail

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A worker walks past a shopping and retail pedestrian street in Chongqing, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Shanghai and Chongqing are expected to be the first cities to roll out taxes for home ownership in China, according to the official Xinhua News Agency and Shanghai Securities News's Jan. 10 reports.Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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