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217:, who has reached a hundred years and is living there. Twenty years later, there are far more advanced technologies for manipulating the weather and the Sun of China is abandoned. Lu Hai, now Minister of Space Industry, wants to shoot the mirror, which is too big to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, into the sun's orbit. Shui Wah instead suggests converting it into an
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Shui Wah works as a shoe cleaner in the rural province of China. His roommate Lu Hai has developed a new nanofabric and hopes to earn a lot of money by a possible application for solar cookers. When the television reports about the "Sun of China", a giant solar mirror in orbit to promote rain in
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