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Workers sort artificially cultivated freshwater pearls
at a pearl production factory in Zhuji, Zhejiang province April 23, 2008.
Zhuji aims to become an international production and distribution hub for
artificially cultivated freshwater pearls. Zhuji began cultivating pearl
clams from the 1970s, and it now supplies 70% of the overall Chinese
market with pearl products, local media reported.
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