A worker cleans the windows of an apartment block in Beijing's central buisiness district April 4, 2007. China is struggling to control investment growth, with spending on property seen as crucial to avoiding either a binge in capital spending or an excessive slowdown, a top economic think-tank said in remarks published this week.
Fireworks explode over Tian Tan Buddha, Asia's largest bronze seated Buddha, at Po Lin Monastery on the Lantau island in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, June 23, 2007. The event is part of the celebrations for the upcoming 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.
A girl fails to maintain a crouching posture as students go through etiquette training at a vocational school in Beijing October 25, 2007. Around 1,400 aviation service students, mostly between the ages of 16 and 17, are currently going through physical conditioning as well as professional training for dressing and etiquette in order to serve as stewards during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to the school announcement.
A six-floor villa is viewed on the construction site in the central business district of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of South China, April 17, 2007. Choi Chu Cheung, the owner of the villa, and his wife Zhang Lian-hao, refused to accept the compensation offered by the developer who plans to build a financial centre on the site. The couple are demanding that the developer compensate them with property similar in size or raise the offer from 6,500 yuan ($840) to 18,000 yuan ($2,327) per square metre.
US celebrity Paris Hilton visits Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai November 21, 2007. Hilton is in Shanghai to attend 2007 MTV Awards on Friday.
Chen Yan (R), a 51-year-old Chinese female impersonator of China's late Chairman Mao, waves to the crowd during a photocall in Mianyang in Southwest China's Sichuan Province May 26, 2007. Chen, measuring 1.55 metres (5.1 feet) tall, was discovered by a beautician during a local TV show. She has to wear a pair of specially designed platform shoes to increase her height to 1.80 metres (5.9 feet). Chen is said to be the first woman to impersonate the former Chinese leader.
A girl sits next to a monkey as she poses for a photo at the end of an animal show held as part of the week-long May Day Holiday activities at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park in Shanghai May 2, 2007.
Children use the toilet at a welfare house in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province January 27, 2007. The welfare house houses about 140 abandoned children, many of whom are disabled.
Paramilitary recruits practice goose-stepping led by their monitor during a regular training in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province January 19, 2007.
A general view shows the collapsed section of Jiujiang Bridge after it was hit by a sand-laden boat in South China's Guangdong Province June 15, 2007. The mile-long road bridge packed with cars and trucks collapsed early on Friday after being hit by a boat laden with sand, leaving part of the highway leading directly into the sea.
