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A Uygur nurse watches over an injured person at the No.1 Hospital affiliated to Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 13, 2009. Xinjiang is slowly returning to normal after a deadly riot broke out in capital city Urumqi on July 5, 2009.
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In Tianshan District in Urumqi, a vehicle shop that was torched and vandalized has resumed business after a quick redecoration.
Consumers walked around the spacious exhibition room, where dozens of new cars were displayed.
Hundreds of rioters had torched 27 cars and smashed up another 24 at the shop, affiliated to Xinjiang Tongtong Commerce and Trade Company.
"We have sold nine vehicles since Sunday when we resumed business," said Ma Dehua, marketing supervisor of the company. "Although we lost several million yuan in the violence, things are getting better. We believe the government will help us to pull through and we will help ourselves too."
Journalists are gradually leaving Urumqi with only 30 registered journalists with 20 news organizations in the press center at the downtown Haide Hotel on Wednesday. Less than 20 journalists could be seen in the center editing dispatches or surfing the Internet in the afternoon.
More than 100 overseas media organizations and 40 domestic news swarmed into the city after the riot.
"Our workload has been decreasing. We used to do three stories a day a few days after the riot. But now we only do one story about the city every day," said a journalist with Hong Kong TVB. "No news is good news, anyway."
Residents were also trying to resume normality after the bloodshed.
Harry Potter fans, mostly children accompanied by adults, and high school and university students on the summer break, turned out at cinemas Wednesday for the long-awaited film.
Showings of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of the wizard series, in Xinjiang were delayed to midday Wednesday for safety reasons, while cinemas in other parts of China released it at midnight as scheduled.
Posters of Harry Potter and a huge scroll reading "Against separation, safeguarding unity" hung side by side on the outside walls of a cinema close to the center of the bloody violence on July 5.
(Xinhua News Agency July 16, 2009)
