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Tourists climb the Singing Sand Dunes near the Crescent Moon Spring on July 20, 2010 in Jiuquan of Gansu Province China. The Crescent Moon Spring, named after its unique moon-like shape, is located at the north foot of the Singing Sand Dunes, about 50 meters (164 feet) from north to south and 5 meters (16 feet) deep on an average. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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A participant takes part in a lassoing competition during the Nadam festival at a race ground in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on August 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Patty Chen) #
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Journalists take photos of flood water being released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province on July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Cheng Min) #
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A Chinese Peking Opera performer waits for the opening ceremony of 12th Beijing International Tourism Festival at Qianmen Commercial Street, in Beijing on September 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Jason Lee) #
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Hyundai automobiles move towards the paint shop at the Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Motor Co. factory in Beijing, China, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (Nelson Ching/Bloomberg) #
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Japanese adult actress Saori Hara (pink robe) and actor Hayama Hiro (blue robe), both wear 3D glasses as they watch a replay of their acting during the making of "3D Sex and Zen", with director Christopher Sun (standing, center) in Hong Kong on August 13, 2010. The producers are hoping the erotic period drama based in ancient China will prove a titillating hit with 3D-glasses-wearing audiences and develop a lucrative, niche market for pornography productions in future. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip) #
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A military officer helps members of an honor guard line up before the arrival of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) #
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Floods run through a newly built residential area in Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, in southwest China's Sichuan province on Aug. 15, 2010. (AP Photo) #
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A landslide swept aside buildings at the village of Wangong village in Hanyuan county in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan province on July 27, 2010. Rescuers searched for 21 people missing after a landslide in Hanyuan County in China's southern province of Sichuan on Tuesday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Rocks and mud buried 58 homes and about 4,000 villagers were evacuated from their homes. (AP Photo) #
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Officials inspect a train on a bridge after passengers were evacuated near Guanghan in southwest China's Sichuan province on August 19, 2010 an area hit hard by flooding that plagued China for weeks. The train traveling in southwestern China derailed after floods destroyed the bridge, plunging at least two carriages into a river, but all passengers were safe. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A woman sits under her umbrella in People's Square in Shanghai during a heavy rain storm on August 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Aly Song) #
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Building debris near an explosion site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday July 28, 2010. A powerful blast caused by a suspected gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least five people and seriously injuring 28. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Sun Can) #
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Inmates listen to a speech at Taiyuan No.1 prison in Taiyuan, Shanxi province September 1, 2010. Some 1,000 inmates attended the speech which was considered one of the educational and reformation measures organized by the prison, local media reported. (REUTERS/Stringer) #
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Workers clean the exterior of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai September 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Aly Song) #
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A Hui ethnic minority mother holds her daughter while standing in front of their house at Xinyuan Village on July 18, 2010 in Yinchuan, China. The Hui ethnic minority are descended from the Arabic and Persian merchants who came to China during the 7th century. With a population of 10 million, the majority of the group lives in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, however there are Hui living in almost all the provinces and cities of China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
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A statue with graffiti written on it stands in front of residential and government buildings under construction on land previously used for farming in the town of Gushi in Henan province. Gushi, a county some thousand kilometers south of Beijing, is a microcosm of the urbanization tide reshaping China, driving investment to the country's poorer interior, devouring farmland and creating cities that will absorb more residents than the total population of the United States in coming decades. (REUTERS/David Gray) #
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A crashed aircraft is seen in this picture distributed by Yonhap news agency on August 18, 2010. The aircraft which crashed in northeast China was thought be a plane from North Korea, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, citing unnamed government authorities. The aircraft came down in Liaoning province on Tuesday, prompting reports by South Korea's Yonhap news agency and Chinese Internet speculation that it was a North Korean military aircraft flown by a pilot trying to flee the poor and isolated country. (REUTERS/Yonhap)
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