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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Ecosystems
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Chinese
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Certainly
Culture
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