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CHICAGO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- A euphonic flow of traditional Chinese music "Jasmine flower" leaked out of a classroom of the Valparaiso University in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Chinese Yangqin teacher was instructing a U.S. student on the traditional Chinese musical instrument, a hammered dulcimer.


"I can't believe this is your first time playing Yangqin. You've done a great job!" said Yuening Liu, a Chinese Yangqin musician, to the student.


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"We had great responses from Chinese audience," said Paul Friesen-Carper, multi-instrumentalist and singer of the Silk Cedar. "When we were there at the grand theater in Qingdao, people want more, and we did encores. People really appreciate the kind of music we were making and the ways we were able to bring: elements of American traditional jazz music melted with Chinese melodies."


Friesen-Carper got his first taste of Chinese music when he toured China with a youth orchestra in 2000, when he worked side by side with Chinese musicians and learned a little bit about Chinese music.


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"I think for many Americans, their experience in Chinese music is the background music at a Chinese restaurant. So being able to bring this kind of music to a concert atmosphere where people can really give it time to listen, I think those kind of musical conversations in a way that people interact musically really helps cultural understanding and hopefully also political understanding," Paul Friesen-Carper said.


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Mahler said he's been always interested in different culture music.


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Liu still remembered the moment when Paul Friesen-Carper sang out Chinese folk song "In a Land Far, Far Away" in Chinese at the University of Michigan to mark the 45-year anniversary of Ping-pong diplomacy between China and the U.S., all audience Kyle Hendricks Jersey , both American and Chinese, were moved and responded with applauses.


"There is no boundary in music and music always resonates. Music should be a new vehicle for cultural exchange," Liu said.


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Joel Muyskens, a senior from Grand Rapids Christian High School, tried his hands on Erhu Koji Uehara Jersey , a traditional Chinese two-string musical instrument, in another classroom.


"It was really difficult at first but after a while you can get the hang of it," Muyskens said. "It is a lot different from the bass which I play. I really like the melodies that Chinese music has, and I can really recognize them."

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Chinese authorities said they will earmark a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) special fund to support the country’s “Made in China 2025” initiative, the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily reported on Oct. 12.


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The MIIT has signed an agreement with the National Development Bank (NDB) to aid pilot projects that are preferred by the market. The NDB has pledged that it will offer no less than 300 billion yuan of financial support to the “Made in China 2025” initiative from 201 PharmaSynth o.

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