Snapshots
| Endurance test: The top of a pagoda in Qixian county, Shanxi province, built in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), has hung on precariously for a century. Liu Jiang / for China Daily |
| House of China: Visitors flock to a house decorated with hundreds of millions of porcelain chips in Tianjin on July 27. The house, refitted by private collector Zhang Lianzhi, has become a landmark in the port city. Provided to China Daily |
| Obstacle course: A motorcyclist negotiates a road flooded by Poyang Lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. Shen Junfeng / for China Daily |
| Float parade: Bathers in what is said to be Asia's biggest indoor swimming pool, in Suining, Sichuan province. Zhong Min / for China Daily |
| Fashion taste: A model wears a dress decorated by chocolate at World Chocolate Dream Park in Taipei on July 25. Xinhua |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 08/01/2014 page7)
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