Spreading the joy
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The mood in Hong Kong is celebratory - with a sea of red national and HKSAR flags, lanterns, and festive banners decorating streets, parks, shopping malls and residential buildings - as the special administrative region prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland in two days' time. China Daily recorded some of these memorable moments in Hong Kong's history.

- China completes first landing, takeoff test of manned lunar lander
- State Council oversees probe into Xinjiang suspension bridge accident
- Theropod dinosaur footprints confirmed in Guangxi
- China's Przewalski's horse population tops 900, a third of global total
- 5.4-magnitude quake hits waters off Taiwan: CENC
- Water conservancy project attracts visitors in Xinjiang