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Fuzhou
Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian province in south-eastern China, on the Min river near the coast. As Dongye it was the capital of the Minyue kingdom in the 2nd century BCE, and in the 10th century it was the seat of the Min kingdom. Opened to foreign trade as a treaty port in 1842, it became a centre of the tea trade and the site of the Fuzhou Navy Yard, founded in 1866.
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