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On Tuesday, the President begins visits Shanghai and holds a roundtable
discussion with Chinese citizens who are helping to shape the landscape
of contemporary Chinese society, in areas including: business, law, the
arts, media, and religion. The roundtable discussion will be held at the
Shanghai Library, a new municipal library housing over one million
volumes and the latest technology in digitalized data management,
Internet access and book retrieval services.
Following the roundtable discussion, the President attends a reception at
the new Shanghai Museum as a guest of the mayor of Shanghai. The
Shanghai Museum opened in 1996, and is a symbol of Shanghai's growth and
prosperity and a centerpiece of its cultural renaissance. The museum
contains some of the finest displays of ancient and modern Chinese art in
the world. Its collection, contributed mostly by private donors,
includes bronzes and ceramics, coins, jade, furniture, ethnic minority
artifacts and folk art, and paintings. The bronze collection is
generally regarded as the best in the world. Built without central
government assistance, it serves all of China as the finest repository in
the country for the artistic riches of five millennia of Chinese history
and achievement.
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