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Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) talks
with foreign athletes as he visits east China's port city of Qingdao in
Shandong Province to inspect preparatory work for the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games' sailing event on July 20, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)
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Chinese president inspects preparatory
work for Olympic sailing event
QINGDAO, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao
on Sunday visited east China's port city of Qingdao to inspect preparatory work
for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games' sailing event and local
enterprises.
Hu was pleased at the efforts Qingdao had made to clean
seawater and make it qualified for Olympics' sailing event. He urged continuing
to keep alert and make efforts to ensure a smooth sailing event.
Starting in mid-June, the coast of Qingdao was coated
with a vast algae coming from the Yellow Sea. A bright green covering of algae
smothered beaches and extended out several hundred meters. It once covered 32
percent of the sailing venue at the peak of the outbreak. Full story
