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Businessmen pray for booming year

（Xinhua）  07:54, February 17, 2013  

A local citizen rides through dense smoke caused by firecrackers on Fengqi Road in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 16, 2013. Saturday marks the first working day after the one-week Spring Festival break which started on Feb. 9. Setting off firecrackers on this day is a traditional custom for businessmen to pray for a booming year. (Xinhua/Shi Jianxue)

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（Editor：HuangJin、Chen Lidan）

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