Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2013!!!
more pix courtesy of popeye
more pix courtesy of popeye
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 29: (L-R) Yao Ming, Chinese national basketball team coach Jonas Kazlauskas, Yi Jianlian, Liu Wei, Wang Zhelin, Joakim Noah, chris singleton and Metta World Peace attends Yao Foundation Charity Game press conference on June 29, 2013 in Beijing, China.
A family visits an exhibition at China's National Museum in Beijing on June 29, 2013. China's new breed of art collectors have propelled Beijing, and to a lesser extent Shanghai, to the forefront of the art scene with Chinese works of art regularly breaking records at auction. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO
A group of pupils visit Tiananmen square in Beijing on June 29, 2013. China is now the third most visited country in the world with the number of overseas tourists visiting, totaling nearly 60 million annually and the number of domestic tourist visits at 1.61 billion according to the World Trade Organization (WTO). AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO
Lightning flashes in the sky in Beijing, June 28, 2013. Rain is expected to sweep across north China from Saturday to Monday, according to Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken June 28, 2013. *******/Stringer
Shipping containers sit stacked next to container cranes at Kwai Tsing Container Port Terminal 4, operated by Hongkong International Terminals Ltd., in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, June 28, 2013. Hong Kongs May export numbers contracted by 1% year-on-year, the citys government said, against an estimated gain of 3.4% from a survey of 11 economists. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via ***** Images
Visitors look at a statue of Guanyin during the 1st Shanxi Cultural Industry Expo in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, June 29, 2013. The exhibition will last till July 3. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
Visitors look at a ceramic pagoda during the 1st Shanxi Cultural Industry Expo in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, June 29, 2013. The exhibition will last till July 3. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
Visitors look at a cloth tiger during the 1st Shanxi Cultural Industry Expo in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, June 29, 2013. The exhibition will last till July 3. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
A boy plays with the water of a fountain on a square in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, June 29, 2013. The highest temperature in Wuhan reached 30 degree centigrade on Friday. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
People (models no doubt) attend a water-splashing festival during the summer at the Colorful World in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, June 29, 2013. (Xinhua/Li Ga)
Graduates pose for a group photo during the graduation ceremony of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, June 29, 2013. The graduation ceremony was held here Saturday. [Xinhua]
The bronze heads of four zodiac animals looted by British and French troops in 1860 have gone on display at a new museum in Shanghai. It is the first outing for the heads, which were returned to China in 2000. The four bronze heads on display here are the pig, ox, tiger and monkey. They used to be part of the zodiac fountain at the Yuanmingyuan Garden before they were looted in 1860. The remaining eight are still unaccounted for overseas. But what's displayed here shows the exquisite craftsmanship of the bronze heads.