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Thousands of people filled the courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Saturday for a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, which featured dragon dances and other traditional Chinese folk artforms.
Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai and Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton kicked off the event with a dragon awakening ceremony, during which they painted color onto a dragon's eyes.
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"Xin Nian Kuai Le," Skorton wished the some 7,500 visitors happy new year in the Chinese language to mark the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rooster.
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Five-year-old Julia and her older brother Henry, who was seven, made quite a splash at the bustling figure making corner, where they were taught by a Chinese craftsman how to make a crawling caterpillar with only a straw and a piece of paper.
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BISHKEK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- President of Kyrgyzstan AlmazbekAtambayev and visiting President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyevsigned on Tuesday an agreement on coordination of 85 percent of theKyrgyz-Uzbek border, the press service of the Kyrgyz Presidentreported.
""We were convinced that we can agree if we want and have apolitical will,"" Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said after thesigning of the main document.
He said that, today there was a historical event.
""The peoples of the two countries have waited for this day for25 years. This is a great merit of Uzbek President ShavkatMirziyoyev,"" Atambayev said.
The Kyrgyz President said that during the talks the two sidesreached mutual understanding on all the issues.
The Kyrgyz leader also added that today he was once againconvinced that there are no unsolvable issues.
""Today's state visit of the President of the Republic ofUzbekistan opens a new era Cheap Andrew Bogut Jersey , a new era in relations between the twofraternal countries and two independent republics,"" he said.
From his part, President Mirziyoyev proposed to turn theKyrgyz-Uzbek border into the border of friendship.
""The strategy of our country, of the new leadership in ourforeign policy is a rapprochement with our neighbors,"" he saidnaming Kyrgyzstan a strategic partner.
The sides also reached mutual understanding on the constructionof China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway and agreed to accelerate theconstruction.
According to data of the Uzbek President, in the first half of2017 the trade turnover between the two countries grew by 60percent. Mirziyoyev said that there are plans to raise the turnoverup to 500 million U.S. dollars.
During the talks, the sides also exchanged views on the wholecomplex of Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations and prospects for furtherdevelopment of bilateral cooperation.