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Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) poses for a photo with representatives of model youth before joining a discussion to mark the country's Youth Day on Saturday at China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing, capital of China, May 4, 2013. Xi on Saturday called on Chinese young people to contribute to the revitalization of the nation and "hone themselves at grassroots." (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)

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Pet dogs receive grooming at a pet beauty salon in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 5, 2013. Sunday is the beginning of the 7th solar term in Chinese lunar calendar, which indicates the coming of summer. Many people in Suzhou have their pets trimmed to spend the heat summer. (Xinhua/Wang Jiankang)

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People select books at the secondhand book fair in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, May 5, 2013. During the fair, pupils and middle school students could sell or exchange their idle books, stationery and toys as well, by which they were expected by the organizer to learn a frugal lifestyle. (Xinhua/Wang Xin)

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People walk along the lake bank of the Nanhu Park in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, May 5, 2013. Sunday is the beginning of the 7th solar term in Chinese lunar calendar, which indicates the coming of summer. The temperature in Jilin rebounded in recent days. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)

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Actress Michelle Chen performs during a signing promotion event for her new album "Me, Myself and I" in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, May 5, 2013. (Xinhua)

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Photo taken on May 5 with multiple exposure camera settings shows a model presenting fashion creation designed by Gao Lixin during the 2013 China (Qingdao) International Fashion Week in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong Province, May 5, 2013. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

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Jaden Lee (Top) of Canada battles with his compatriot Justin Ma during the 34th annual Can-Am International Martial Arts Championships in Richmond, BC, Canada, May 4, 2013. The annual Can-Am has several categories for competition, including Chinese traditional Kungfu, Wushu, Tai Chi, Karate and Taekwondo. (Xinhua/Sergei Bachlakov)

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BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 06: Chinese President Xi Jinping (Right) gestures to invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Left) to a welcoming ceremony held outside the Great Hall of the People on May 6, 2013 in Beijing, China.

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BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 6: China's Premier Li Keqiang talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai compound on May 6, 2013 in Beijing, China. Abbas is visiting China from May 5 to 7.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Shanghai Hongqiao Airport in east China's Shanghai, May 6, 2013. Netanyahu arrived in Shanghai for a visit on Monday. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)

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People cross the road during a road safety campaign as the government announces its first ever fine (USD 1.50) for jaywalking in Beijing on May 6, 2013. China's roads are highly dangerous, with traffic laws and safety widely flouted, and truck drivers typically overworked. Last year more than 62,000 people officially died in traffic accidents but a recent World Heath Organization report suggested the rate was more than double that. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON

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Women wearing face masks run to cross a street in Beijing May 6, 2013. The United States Embassy monitor on air quality in China classified the quality of air in Beijing as "hazardous". REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - MAY 03: American actor Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith attend a fan meeting on May 3, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. Will Smith and Jaden Smith will stay in Taipei for 3 days to promote their new movie 'After Earth'.

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Zhangjiawan village is located on a remote mountain called “The Gate of Heaven” in central China's Hunan province, accessible only by ladders. The town was built hundreds of years ago to avoid bandits. Children here literally climb mountains to get to school. (Source: chinenews.com)

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The China Final of 2013 Miss Tourism International rang down the curtain in Huangpi District of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, May 5, 2013. (Source: Chinanews.com)

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Classes resume at Lushan Middle School in Sichuan Province on May 6, 16 days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the region. The quake, which hit Lushan on April 20, damaged buildings at 357 schools in Ya'an, causing massive disruption to teaching activities. Students have now resumed classes in temporary, prefabricated buildings which were constructed thanks to the efforts of local people.[Photo/Chinanews.com]

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BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 8: China's Premier Li Keqiang (R) toasts with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on May 8, 2013 in Beijing, China. Netanyahu is on a five-day visit to China. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon-Pool/Getty Images)

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People ride past the unfinished office building of People's Daily, the official newspaper of the communist party of China, in Beijing, May 8, 2013. Some Chinese bloggers ridiculed that the building's outline, which they claim resembled the male genital, matched perfectly with the China Central Television (CCTV) tower that has been nicknamed "Big Underpants." REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic

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In this Saturday, April 20, 2013 file photo, a model poses with a Great Wall H7 SUV at the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (AUTO Shanghai) media day in Shanghai, China. SUV sales in China rose 20 percent last year to 2.5 million vehicles, more than double the 8 percent growth of the overall auto market, according to LMC Automotive. SUVs made up 18 percent of all vehicles sold. Great Wall Motor Co., has become the Chinese industry's breakout success on the strength of its SUVs. The company, headquartered in Baoding, an industrial city southwest of Beijing, said SUV sales in the first three months of the year rose 95 percent over a year earlier and accounted for half the 180,000 vehicles it sold. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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Hong Kong-based model and actress Lynn Xiong wears a 75.36 carats briolette diamond during a Christie's preview in Hong Kong May 7, 2013. The diamond, which is the largest D/1F briolette diamond on record and estimated to be worth between $8.5 million and $12.5 million, will be offered during Christie's Spring Auctions in May, according to a press release by Christie's. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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A man walks past an effigy of a dock worker outside Cheung Kong Centre, headquarters of tycoon Li Ka-shing, at Hong Kong's financial Central district May 7, 2013. The 40-day strike by about 500 dock workers ended after they agreed to a 9.8% pay rise, reported the government radio on Monday. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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Job applicants stand as they wait for the interview of a flight attendent recruitment in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, May 8, 2013. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

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Job applicants sit straight up during an interview of flight attendent recruitment in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, May 8, 2013. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

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A girl holds a flower as she visits a cemetery in which Teresa Teng is tombed, in Xinbei City, southeast China's Taiwan, May 8, 2013. Fans from all over the world commemorated here on Wednesday the 18th anniversary of the death and 60th anniversary of the birth of Teresa Teng, the Taiwanese singer famous for her love songs. (Xinhua/Xie Xiudong)

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A rainstorm hit Yangchun City, Guangdong Province on May 8, 2013.

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A man sleeps on bundles of electric wires attached to a wire pole in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Monday, attracting the attention of many onlookers. Firefighters rescued the man two hours later and sent him to a hospital. The man is mentally ill, police said. [Photo by Ma Zhao/Asianewsphoto]

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Dozens of local villagers and passers-by scrambled for the diesel spilled from an oil tank truck which accidentally turned over on a road in Ulanqab, N China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on May 6th.

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Edmund Ho (L), vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, shakes hands with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, May 9, 2013. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)

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Jiang Yiyan covers Darizi magazine

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Rescuers work at the accident site after a landslide occurred in Lushan County of Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 9, 2013. Two people were killed and another seven injured in the landslide on Thursday morning, when rocks caused by the landslide buried three vehicles with nine people aboard. The accident took place at the epicenter of a 7.0-Magnitude earthquake that struck on April 20. (Xinhua)

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A villager collects vegetables in a flooded greenhouse in Mazhai Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 8, 2013. Six counties in the Qiandongnan Miao-Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southeast Guizhou were hit by hails and storms from Tuesday to Wednesday. About 12,000 local residents have been affected. (Xinhua/Chen Peiliang)

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Armed police seal off the Jingwen Market, in Beijing's Fengtai district Wednesday after dismissing a protesting crowd. Photo: Li Hao/GT

Hundreds of people protested outside a Beijing market building Wednesday, demanding an open investigation into the death of a migrant worker who plummeted from the building on Friday.

A large number of policemen, including armed forces and helicopters were sent onsite to dispel the crowd, while police said there was no evidence of foul play in the preliminary investigation, dismissing public speculation that the woman was gang raped and thrown out of the building.

Although mass incidents are becoming more frequent in China, such events in Beijing remain rare. The capital police pays close attention to maintaining social order and a protest on this scale has propelled the matter beyond an ordinary investigation.

Beijing police said the surveillance camera captured the woman, 22, surnamed Yuan, entering the building in the evening of May 2 alone, before falling to her death at 5 am the next day. She had no interaction with other people during her one-night stay, said police, and neither an on-site investigation nor a later autopsy suggested any signs of suspicious conditions.

A crowd gathered at the Jingwen Market in the capital's Fengtai district at around 10 am shouting slogans and holding banners, a nearby shopkeeper told the Global Times.

Witnesses said the protesters were mostly from Anhui Province, where the dead woman came from, and included her family and friends.

The gathering, which had attracted thousands of on-lookers by noon, was dismissed by police at around 2 to 3 pm, another witness told the Global Times.

A major street that had been blocked since the morning was reopened at 5 pm.

Rumors have been circulated online that Yuan was gang raped in a enclosed room inside the building by seven security guards, which led to her suicide, or that they even pushed her out. Yuan's mother visited the Dahongmen Police Station supervising the market but was not allowed to see the surveillance footage, some Web users said.

The case attracted wide attention online with Weibo users widely reposting the police's announcement.

One Web user posted a picture showing a dead body lying on the ground and claimed it was the scene of Yuan's death. However it turned out the photo was lifted from a Hong Kong TV show.

However, comments or re-posts were quickly removed off Weibo, and the Beijing Public Security Bureau closed comments for their post on the case.

As recent massive protests have triggered nationwide debates, including one against a chemical plant in Kunming, experts have suggested that the government needs better ways to maintain stability.

Xia Xueluan, a professor with the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology of Peking University, told the Global Times that a major reason for this nationwide attention is that it involves the vulnerable migrant worker community.

"If it's just a normal suicide, why can't I talk about it?" asked one Weibo user. "I demand the police release the surveillance video and let the public share their opinions freely."

Searching and commenting are not allowed because the authorities hope the discussion will gradually die down, Xia said, but added that controlling information would only arouse more anger and speculation from the public.

The bureau should release the information demanded by the public in the face of speculation, before its credibility is ruined, said Xia.

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