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How a promise saved a historic landmark in China

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In 1986, Gulangyu Island's iconic Bagua Building, in southeast China's Fujian Province, was falling apart – until a young vice mayor made a bold promise. That man was Xi Jinping. Watch how one decision saved a cultural treasure, and decades later, helped Gulangyu become a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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