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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/09/content_5585667.htm
China Renovates Jewish Cemetery Ahead of Israeli PM Visit
[Xinhua-China] Mu Xuequan - China has spent $385,000 dollars repairing the Jewish cemetery in the city of Harbin in northeast China, ahead of the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is a son of a former Jewish resident of China. Olmert's grandparents moved to Harbin from Russia to flee persecution in the late 19th century. The number of Jewish people living in Harbin topped 25,000 in the 1920s.