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FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 9, 2015, Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, second right, during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. dos Santos announced Friday Feb. 3, 2017, in an address to his ruling MPLA party that he will not run in elections scheduled for August 2017, ending his 38 years in power.(Wang Zhao/FILE via AP)

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AP10ThingsToSee - As the sun rises, Chinese paramilitary policemen watch over Tiananmen Square from a rooftop across from the Great Hall of the People ahead of the closing ceremony of the annual National People's Congress in the hall in Beijing on Sunday, March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Hostesses prepare tea for the member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) ahead of the plenary session of the CPPCC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, March 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)"]

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President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping drink after a toast during a lunch banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 12, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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The three-story Great Hall at the National Building Museum lends itself to a wide variety of events and celebrations, such as the National Cherry Blossom Festival's Family Days in March 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A visitor walks through the Great Hall, a vast three-story plaza bracketed by matching sets of Corinithian columns, at the National Building Museum. (the washington times)