Word: hubei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a hunter sighting of a huge fast-moving creature covered in long, red hair, Chinese scientists in Hubei province's Shennongjia Nature Reserve have been trailing Big Foot...
...starts with the sound of ancient bells. Not just any ancient bells, but the deep-throated, time-tinted clang and roar of a bianzhong, a fully intact set of 65 ceremonial bronze chimes entombed in China's Hubei province in 433 B.C. and dug up by amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...satellite photos showed that the layout of the plant in the Rawalpindi suburbs was similar to an M-11 rocket facility in Hubei province in central China. Reports from agents on the ground, along with telephone intercepts, revealed that about a dozen engineers from the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp. have visited the Rawalpindi site. The state-run corporation, based in Beijing, is in charge of marketing missiles like the M-11 overseas. The CIA also spotted crates containing what it believed were machine tools for building rocket motors being shipped by the Chinese corporation to the plant...