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TIL Nanjing once had a large Forbidden City Palace complex built by the first Ming Emperor Hongwu in the fourteenth century that is now in ruins. Plans were made to build a Presidential Palace on the former Ming Palace grounds when Nanjing became the Chinese Capital again in 1928

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