Hong Kong's Apple Daily welcomes Fu Ying's "firm and graceful, noble and elegant image", but says she disappointed the outside world with "shadow boxing" or stonewalling on political reform.

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You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.

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