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A farmer harvests wheat in a village in Bozhou, a city in Anhui Province in east China, on May 25.

Circus Show

Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil announced on May 26 that it would reopen its resident show The Land of Fantasy in Hangzhou in east China on June 3, its Shanghai office said.

This is the first Cirque du Soleil production to be reopened since the company ceased worldwide operations due to the novel coronavirus epidemic.

Premiered last August in Hangzhou, , is the only Cirque du Soleil resident show in Asia, co-presented with Chinese real estate enterprise Hangzhou Suntiandy Group.

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