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"Although the goddess worked very hard, she still couldn't patch up the sky in Ya'an, one of China's scenic spots. As a result, it rains a lot there.

"Instead, the goddess moved the construction material, nice and of good quality, to the east and formed the islands of Hainan and Taiwan."

Responding to a question on government expenditure, Li said he didn't even know the daily expenditure of his own family.

"It's the most difficult question put to me in years," he said.

Besides his natural sense of humor, Li's heavy Shandong dialect only made his answers more amusing.

"It's really hard to change the Shandong dialect, because it's the voice of the Confucius and Mencius. It's heavy because there's so much history in it," he once said.

The conference, scheduled for an hour, lasted for almost two. Xu Jingbo, the editor of the Japan-based Asian News Agency, thought Li was brilliant in the press conference. "Li's answers, though humorous, are well to the point. It shows his rich knowledge of historical and diplomatic issues."

(China Daily March 6, 2009)

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