Chinese Daily Photos, 2011 to 2019!

bd popeye said:

A man gets caught into a horse fighting contest in Anchui village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 19, 2011. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

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CardSharp said:

Serves him right for being at something called a horse fighting contest.

PS thanks to popeye for doing this thread .

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) holds an online chat with Internet users at two state news portals in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 27, 2011. The two portals, namely

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of the central government and

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of the Xinhua News Agency, jointly interviewed Premier Wen on Sunday with questions raised by netizens. [Pang Xinglei/Xinhua]

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Chinese workers go about their chores at a textile factory in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on February 24, 2011. Premier Wen Jiabao said China had set a lower than usual economic growth target and pledged to contain soaring prices as concern over runaway growth mounts, as the world's second-largest economy would aim for seven percent annual growth over the next five years -- a rare lowering of its usual target of eight percent expansion, until now seen as key to staving off social unrest.

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A Chinese bank worker counts a stack of 100-yuan notes at a bank in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on February 27, 2011. A sharp rise in the Chinese yuan would bankrupt businesses and leave workers jobless, Premier Wen Jiabao said in one of the strongest recent defences of the country's forex policy.

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Participants hold candles as they attend a memorial service to commemorate Szeto Wah, a local democracy icon, in Victoria Park in Hong Kong February 27, 2011. At least 1,500 people gathered in a Hong Kong park to commemorate a democracy icon who helped dissidents escape China after the Tiananmen occurrence.

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Workers clear the crash site after a freight train was derailed in a collision with a truck in Tianjin on February 26, 2011. China would continue to 'push forward' a massive expansion of the country's huge railway system, but safety concerns must come to the forefront, said Sheng Guangzu, the railway ministry's newly named Communist Party chief, as the ambitious development of China's huge rail network, which is set to be expanded to 120,000 kilometres (74,400 miles) by 2020, up from about 86,000 kilometres in 2010.

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A policeman patrols outside a Mcdonald's restaurant along the shopping street of Wangfujing in Beijing, after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest organized through the internet February 27, 2011. An online call for anti-government protests across China on Sunday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East. Lines of police checked passers-by and warned away foreign photo journalists in downtown Beijing and Shanghai after a U.S.-based Chinese website spread calls for Chinese people to emulate the "Jasmine Revolution" sweeping the Middle East and stage gatherings in support of democratic change.

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Chinese democracy activist Wuer Kaixi (C) shouts slogans in support of calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest in China, during a gathering at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei February 27, 2011.

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Chinese nationals evacuated from Libya arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Feb. 27, 2011.

BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- More than 20,000 Chinese nationals had been evacuated from unrest-wracked Libya as of Sunday, according to China's Foreign Ministry.

About 1,400 had returned to China while 3,400 were on their way to a third country, said a statement from the ministry.

An estimated 15,200 were temporarily in a third country: 7,200 on the Greek island of Crete, 2,100 in Malta and 5,900 on the Tunisian island of Djerba, said the Chinese ministry.

"Almost all Chinese citizens have been pulled out of eastern Libya, from the area in and around Benghazi," it said.

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bd popeye said:

An actual video of the Jasmine Revolution...from I-cable.

[video=youtube;dzKsqw8u2v4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKsqw8u2v4&feature=player_embedded#at=24[/video]

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jantxv said:

In almost all of today's newspapers there is mention of yet another "Jasmine Revolution" in China with, again, another McDonalds serving as the hub. This time however journalists from the BBC were arrested and a American journalist beaten up by the police. Fairly serious stuff now. But this time it seems US Ambassador Huntsman wasn't spotted....yet.

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Workers clear the crash site after a freight train was derailed in a collision with a truck in Tianjin on February 26, 2011.

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Workers realign the tracks after a freight train was derailed in a collision with a truck in Tianjin on February 26, 2011

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An elderly woman walks past a god of fortune mascot on displayed outside a shopping mall in Beijing Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. China's leadership is promising to steer the economy in a new direction in its blueprint for the next five years that would empower consumers and narrow a yawning wealth gap but require politically contentious reforms.

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GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 28: Yiyi Zhang and Nan Wu of China compete in the Ice Dance Free during day one of the 2011 World Junior Figure Skating Championships at Gangneung International Ice Rink on February 28, 2011 in Gangneung, South Korea.

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Rescue workers from Japan (above) and China are seen at the collapsed site of Canterbury Television (CTV) building that housed the King's Education School, following Tuesday's 6.3 earthquake in the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch February 28, 2011. New Zealand's earthquake-shattered city of Christchurch prepared to bury the first victim on Monday of last week's devastating tremor that killed at least 148 people as aftershocks forced the evacuation of scores of people in hillside suburbs.

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A baby sits in a carriage while a woman bought vegetables at a stall near a residential building in Beijing Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. China is slightly lowering its annual economic growth target, to 7 percent from 8 percent, the premier said Sunday, in a move that signals a shift in government priorities to put the breakneck economy on a more sustainable footing.

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Cathay Pacific employees from the flight attendants union (FAU) protest amid a pay dispute with their employer at the international airport in Hong Kong on January 11, 2011. The FAU has voted for to enforce a 'work to rule' policy which could disrupt Chinese New Year flights, amid wage negotiations with the carrier.

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The Hong Kong International Fur and Fashion Fair in Hong Kong on February 27, 2011. Hong Kong handles 70 percent of the trade in raw furs and 80 percent of the world's processed furs, according to a US department of Agriculture report.

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Photos taken on Feb. 28, 2011 show the Hohhot East Railway Station in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The railway station, with construction area of 98,300 square meters, was put into operation on Monday after four years' construction.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with Turkmenian Deputy Prime Minister Baymyrat Hojamuhammedov, who is visiting China as special envoy of Turkmenian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, in Beijing, capital of China, March 1, 2011. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and his Turkmenian counterpart Baymyrat Hojamuhammedov on Tuesday pledged to further all-round cooperation, especially in energy sector.

They inked an inter-governmental agreement on Chinese loan to the Turkmenian gas giant, Turkmengazi State Concern, after their meeting in Beijing.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Hojamuhammedov, who is visiting China as special envoy of Turkmenian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at the Great Hall of the People after the agreement was signed.

The details of the agreement was not available at the signing ceremony but China has been a major buyer of the Central Asian state's gas and oil.

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Football players of China's Hangzhou Greentown react after scoring against Japan's Nagoya Grampus during the 2011 AFC Champions League group F match in Hangzhou's Huanglong Stadium, east China's Zhejiang province on March 1, 2011. Hangzhou beat Nagoya 2-0.

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A boy wearing a Peking Opera mask waves a Chinese national flag on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, March 1, 2011. The annual sessions of China's top political advisory body and top legislature, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress, are to open respectively on Thursday and Saturday.

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A man stands in front of a sculpture featuring the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 at the China National Museum in Beijng on March 1, 2011. China reopened its national history museum on March 1 after a three-year facelift, but the sprawling look at the past fails to find room for some the country's most momentous -- and sensitive -- events.

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Members of a Chinese delegation view models of US Air Force aircraft on the opening day of the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Expo in Melbourne on March 1, 2011. 180,000 patrons are expected through the gates over the duration of the event staged at the Avalon Airfield some 80kms south-west of Melbourne.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua, a local worker walks by a taxiing China Air Force's IL-76 transport aircraft arriving in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. China's Defense Ministry said Monday it had sent four military transport planes to bring home Chinese citizens trapped in strife-torn Libya. The website of the official newspaper People's Daily said the mission marked the first time China's air force has been mobilized to rescue citizens overseas.

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Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou speaks during a ceremony in downtown Taipei on February 28, 2011. Ma attended the ceremony aimed to honour thousands of people killed by the Nationalist troops more than 60 years ago. The tragedy happened on February 28, 1947, when riots erupted across the island after a KMT inspector beat a female vendor in Taipei for selling untaxed cigarettes.

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Seven Chinese sailors, crew members of a Taiwanese trawler hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia last May, arrived in Shanghai Tuesday, after being released with the other 21 sailors on Jan. 24, 2011.

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Zhang Shuguang was director of transportation bureau and deputy chief engineer at the Ministry of Railways. [Photo/China Daily]

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BEIJING - Another senior official within the Ministry of Railways has been removed from his job amid a probe into possible corruption.

Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer at the Ministry of Railways, was suspended from his post on Monday so he can be investigated.

Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday that Zhang was being investigated by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for an alleged "severe violation of discipline".

It was the latest development in a scandal that has seen growing speculation about how many railway officials may end up being investigated following the removal of Liu Zhijun, the former minister of railways. He was dismissed as the top man at the ministry on Feb 12 for an alleged "severe violation of discipline".

Fifty-five-year-old Zhang is believed to have been one of Liu's right-hand men.

Zhang, who was also director of the ministry's transportation bureau, was a supporter of Liu's call to realize "leapfrog development" by building a high-speed rail network. The plans called for a network to be built extending 16,000 km by 2015 and for China to build state-of-the-art bullet trains.

Media reports earlier quoted Zhang as having said he was most proud of his success in undercutting foreign companies offering high-speed train technology.

He also often told reporters that his bargaining techniques, which he said involved using his wit and tactics, had been included in a textbook used by the United States' Stanford University.

Like Liu, Zhang started his career in the railway sector and worked his way up from the bottom.

Before he was named head of the ministry's transportation bureau, he was promoted by Liu to posts including deputy head of the Beijing railway bureau and deputy director of the equipment department under the transportation bureau.

Born in Liyang, Jiangsu province, Zhang graduated from Lanzhou Jiaotong University with a major in vehicle engineering in 1982. He holds the title of adjunct professor at Zhejiang University, Beijing Jiaotong University and Southwest Jiaotong University.

A report by caing.com said Zhang lives alone in Beijing because both his wife and daughter live in the US.

The fact that two senior railway officials are being investigated for alleged corruption has led to concerns about whether China's high-speed railway network will be affected.

Yang Hao, a professor on railways at Beijing Jiaotong University, said on Tuesday that the ongoing anti-graft probe will not interfere with the pace of construction of the country's high-speed railways, because "it is part of China's comprehensive transport system" and not just the work of the railways ministry.

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Security staff try to subdue a protester who forced his way onto a stage while Donald Tsang (first on left) was giving a speech on Tuesday. [Photo/China Daily]

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HONG KONG - The Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has warned that a culture of hostility, tending to violence and spawned by the ill behavior of some legislators, is spreading into the community.

Henry Tang spoke out in response to an incident on Tuesday, during which the city's chief executive, Donald Tsang, was attacked and suffered injuries requiring treatment.

Tang cautioned that the disruptive behavior of some Hong Kong legislators was setting a bad example for the young people of the city.

The chief secretary strongly condemned violence in any form as he met media representatives on Wednesday. Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong stood by his side.

There has been an increasing trend toward verbal and physical violence in the Legislative Council over a period of time, Tang indicated.

"Unfortunately, this culture of violence has been gradually spreading from inside the Council to outside," he said. "And what really concerns us is that this will have extremely bad influence on the young people, the next generation."

Tang noted that policies always can be improved, the government can respond better to the community. But he rejected physical confrontation and violence as suitable means of expression. He stressed that Hong Kong recognizes rational and peaceful expressions of opinion.

Several members of the League of Social Democrats had staged a protest on Tuesday, to express dissatisfaction with the 2011-2012 Hong Kong Budget, brought down February 23.

The demonstration took place, as the chief executive attended the opening ceremony of an exhibition marking the centenary of the 1911 Revolution.

The League of Social Democrats lost control over the demonstrators and the situation quickly disintegrated into chaos. Protesters suddenly charged the chief executive at the entrance to the museum.

A shriek arose from amid the disorder. Tsang was later seen holding his arms and mid section. He appeared to be in pain. A statement issued by a government spokesperson later confirmed one of the protesters "used his body to push the chief executive".

The chief executive required a short rest following the incident. The opening ceremony was delayed by half an hour.

Another protest erupted as Tsang delivered his opening address. A young man rushed at Tsang, making his way onto the stage before security guards fell on him and wrestled him off the platform. The decorations for the event were cancelled. The planned ribbon cutting was cancelled.

Tsang went to hospital at around 10 pm, complaining of pain in his chest. A doctor found redness and swelling on the left side of Tsang's chest. The doctor said if the chief executive had been struck on the sternum his injuries could have been more serious.

Hong Kong police arrested a 25-year-old man following the incident at the museum. He has been charged with common assault and released on bail. Police said they will step up protection of the chief executive as a result of Tuesday's incident.

Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council on Wednesday also expressed grave concern about the matter.

"The chief executive of the SAR, who was elected in Hong Kong according to the Basic Law and appointed by the central government, should be respected. An effective protection of his personal safety must be ensured. Such violence ought to be punished according to law," said a spokesperson.

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