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  In this file photo taken in the autumn of 1981, Liu Yunshan (C), then a Xinhua reporter, talks with Ewenqi hunters during an interview in Olguya, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on April 7, 2007, Liu Yunshan (R, front) learns about villagers' involvement in the artistic painting industry as he visits the studio of Wang Jianmin, a village painter who excels in drawing tigers, during an investigation and research tour in Wanggongzhuang Village of Minquan County, central China's Henan Province (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on April 14, 2011, Liu Yunshan poses for a group photo with local residents as he inspects post-earthquake reconstruction projects in Jiegu Town of Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai Province (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on July 19, 2004, Liu Yunshan (L, front) meets representatives attending a commendation ceremony of young and middle-aged Chinese literary and art workers with supreme virtue and artistic achievements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on May 11, 2006, Liu Yunshan (R), then a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, shakes hands with a Russian guest while meeting a delegation of Russian mainstream media heads at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on March 22, 2009, Liu Yunshan (R, front), then a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, learns about the operating status of publishers after restructuring during an investigation and research tour at the Shandong Publishing Group (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on March 25, 2009, Liu Yunshan (R, front) talks with citizens of Weifang, east China's Shandong Province (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on July 17, 2010, Liu Yunshan (C) chats with members of the Puncog family in Lunang Town, Linzhi County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on December 1, 2010, Liu Yunshan (L, front), then a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, shakes hands with representatives attending the Ninth National Congress of the China Dancers Association before the opening ceremony of the congress in Beijing, capital of China (XINHUA)
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  In this file photo taken on Sept. 18, 2011, Liu Yunshan (L, front), then a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, does water-saving experiment with elementary school students during a National Science Day campaign at the Moliyuan community of Chaoyang District of Beijing, capital of China (XINHUA)