JINING, a small city of east China's Shandong Province, is expecting a new construction plan from overseas Chinese worldwide to build an exhibition city showcasing Confucius' and Mencius' hometown and their lives.
Xu Jialu, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and chief of the construction project, said on Thursday Confucius and Mencius, the two greatest philosophers of ancient China, symbolise the essence of Chinese traditional culture and thought.
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