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Before the Spring Festival, which falls on February 7 this year, the most important festival for the Chinese, counters selling soybean on in a supermar-ket in Beijing's Chaoyang District were especially crowded. "Since September 2007, soybean oil has sold very well," Li Ping, a sales assistant of the supermarket,told Beijing Review, "More than 1,000 bottles are sold every day."