The government realizes that international public opinion has turned sour, he says, but opinion among the Chinese people has never been better.

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Even before news that Chinese students were among the casualties, Chinese people had mostly expressed sympathy for Boston and those injured in the attack, with many applauding the response by city authorities, regular citizens and the media.

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Saturday's earthquake which hit just after 8 a.m. with a magnitude of 7.0, according to Chinese authorities wasn't far from the epicenter of a 2008 quake that killed more than 80, 000 people and raised questions among many in the Chinese public about the ability of Beijing to respond to crisis.

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While the program is open to all, Chinese nationals are likely to be among the biggest takers, according to people involved with the program.

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The shrine is notorious for the fact that among the 2.5m people it commemorates are war criminals who visited terrible atrocities on millions of Chinese citizens in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Among people of Chinese, Korean or Indian descent, the distribution of boys to girls fell in the normal range for the first child.

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