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A Dunhuang story: If cities have souls, I heard them here

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As mayors from around the world gathered in Dunhuang for the "Global Mayors Dialogue," CGTN's Yang Xinmeng explores how this desert city inspires conversations that go beyond urban planning, discussing memory, balance and belonging.

From Venice to Manisa and Budapest to Seoul, she listened to voices that show how technology may connect cities, but culture connects hearts. In the sand and wind of Dunhuang, she found that dialogue among civilizations doesn't just happen in forums. It happens in the stories people share and in the quiet ways cities learn to breathe.

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