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Participants wearing traditional costumes of Yi people pose at a beauty contest during the Torch Festival in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Aug 9, 2015. The Yi ethnic group, with a population of more than 7 million, is mainly distributed over the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The festival, which usually falls on June 24 in the lunar calendar, is the biggest festival of the Yi people. (Photo: China News Service/Gao Han)









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Visitors celebrates the torch festival in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in August 7,2015. The Torch Festival is one of the main holidays of the Yi people of southwest China.It is celebrated on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth month of the Yi calendar, corresponding to August in the Gregorian calendar. (CNS picture/iu Ranyang)

A stainless steel sculpture symbolizing a drop of oil is under construction in Karamay city, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The project was planned in 2013 and is being built upon the place where the first oil well was discovered. The name Karamay is derived from the Uygur words for "black oil", and the city is often referred to as China’s “oil city”. A tourism zone is being developed in Karamay that will feature the area's oil exploration history. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Jianling)

Bird eye view shows a sunflower field in the shape of "bagua" or Eight Trigrams, the eight combinations of three whole or broken lines which were used by ancient Chinese people in their divination, at the foot of Qiyun Mountain in Xiuning County of Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province, on Aug. 10, 2015. (Photo: Xinhua/Shi Guangde)

Tourists ride camels in the desert in Yueyaquan, northwest China's Gansu Province
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ahojunk said:

A stainless steel sculpture symbolizing a drop of oil is under construction in Karamay city, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The project was planned in 2013 and is being built upon the place where the first oil well was discovered. The name Karamay is derived from the Uygur words for "black oil", and the city is often referred to as China’s “oil city”. A tourism zone is being developed in Karamay that will feature the area's oil exploration history. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Jianling)

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That looks too much like the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago by Anish Kapoor over in Millennium Park.

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To have my old brain in a young body.

A retailer stands in her store in Zhufo'an Township of Huoshan County, east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 10, 2015. Typhoon Soudelor has left seventeen people dead with five still missing, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said Monday. More than three million people and 110,000 hectares of crops in east China's Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces were affected by the typhoon, with direct economic losses totalling 8.73 billion yuan (1.43 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)

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A resident drains water at home in Zhufo'an Township of Huoshan County, east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 10, 2015. Flooding caused by Typhoon Soudelor. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)

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A villager shows his ruined aquaculture zones due to Typhoon Soudelor in Xiwei Village of Fu'an, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 10, 2015. Typhoon Soudelor left three people dead and one other missing in Fujian. Over 1.3 million people were affected. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)

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A villager shows his fish killed by Typhoon Soudelor in Yantian Harbour of Xiwei Township in Fu'an, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 10, 2015.

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A farmer checks a tomato field after torrential flood in Xinjian village, Zhangye, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 10, 2015. A heavy rain hit Zhangye Sunday. (Xinhua/Wang Jiang)

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A beer drinking contest is held in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on Aug. 9. A participant finished a big bowl of beer in 2 minutes. (CNS/Zhong Xin)

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Visitors touch an ancient sword at the new exhibition hall of intangible cultural heritage in Hongqiao District of Tianjin, north China, Aug. 11, 2015. The new exhibition hall was opened to the public on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Dongyue)

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Li Chongxi (C), former chairman of the Sichuan provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, stands trial at the intermediate court of Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 11, 2015. Prosecutors accused Li of taking advantage of his posts to seek benefits for local companies and accepting money and valuables worth about 11 million yuan (1.7 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

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Actress Li Xiaoran covers Bazzar Jewelry

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