Spreading the joy
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The mood in Hong Kong is celebratory - with a sea of red national and HKSAR flags, lanterns, and festive banners decorating streets, parks, shopping malls and residential buildings - as the special administrative region prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland in two days' time. China Daily recorded some of these memorable moments in Hong Kong's history.

- Mainland scholar discloses fallacies in Lai's separatist narrative on 'unity'
- University's expulsion of female student ignites online debate
- 4,000 hiking enthusiasts hit rugged trails in Chongqing
- Creative fireworks show held in China's 'fireworks capital'
- Chinese scientists achieve net-negative greenhouse gas emissions via electrified catalysis
- At the gateway to China's resistance, memories of war echo 88 years on