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[In Focus]: 2024 Lantern Festival at Yu Garden

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[In Focus]: 2021 Lantern Festival at Yu Garden

A massive light show to mark the final day of CNY.

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Everything — everything! — there is to do in Shanghai, both indoors and out.

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