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Wei Xian Chun, 52, is one of the 40 artisan ice sculptors from Harbin, China, working on the construction of the attraction ICE! featuring DreamWorks Shrek the Halls at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Wei Xiang Ji, 39, is one of the 40 artisan ice sculptors from Harbin, China, working on the construction of the attraction ICE! featuring DreamWorks Shrek the Halls at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Zhang Jin Sheng, 49, is one of the 40 artisan ice sculptors from Harbin, China, working on the construction of the attraction ICE! featuring DreamWorks Shrek the Halls at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Wang Lian Hai. 39, (left) and his brother Wang Lian Jun, 35, (right) are two of the 40 artisan ice sculptors from Harbin, China, working on the construction of the attraction ICE! featuring DreamWorks Shrek the Halls at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. They are from Harbin, China, the capital city of China's northernmost province, Heilongjiang, across the border from Siberia, Russia. Harbin, China has been host of the Ice and Snow Festival for more than 25 years, welcoming approximately 800,000 visitors annually. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Guo Baiwei, 57, is one of the 40 artisan ice sculptors from Harbin, China, working on the construction of the attraction ICE! featuring DreamWorks Shrek the Halls at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. T (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 8, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A worker fixes a solar panel Nov. 10, 2011, at a factory in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province. (Associated Press/Xinhua, Liang Xiaopeng)

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A recently arrived petitioner from southern China's Hunan province rests on the bed of a rental room that was raided by unidentified men a week ago, on the outskirts of Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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** FILE ** Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (left) meets on Feb. 14, 2012, with President Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Louis Oosthuizen from South Africa tees off at the 12th hole during the first round of the WGC-HSBC Champions golf tournament in Dongguan, southern China's Guangdong province, Thursday Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, a woman covers her face with a leaflet as she sits with a group of elderly men near a temple in Xilinhot in northern China’s Inner Mongolia. In the small town where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, a deputy chief paid three times an average urban resident's annual salary to become its police chief. Buying and selling office is so rampant in China that it has eroded public trust in officialdom, undermining the ruling Communist Party’s image as an institute that promotes the competent, not the connected. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)