A crab apple flower festival in Nanjing has attracted a large number of tourists eager to enjoy the spring flowers.

Bees are busy gathering pollen, as shown in this photo taken on March 16, 2009. A crab apple flower festival which opened recently in Nanjing has attracted a large number of tourists eager to enjoy the spring flowers. [Photo: Xinhuanet]

Bees are busy gathering pollen, as shown in this photo taken on March 16, 2009. A crab apple flower festival which opened recently in Nanjing has attracted a large number of tourists eager to enjoy the spring flowers. [Photo: Xinhuanet]

Bees are busy gathering pollen, as shown in this photo taken on March 16, 2009. A crab apple flower festival which opened recently in Nanjing has attracted a large number of tourists eager to enjoy the spring flowers. [Photo: Xinhuanet]

Citizens take a stroll among the blossoming magnolia flowers in a park in Shanghai in this photo taken on March 17, 2009. Days of warm weather have brought the magnolia flower, the symbolic flower of Shanghai, to full bloom. [Photo: Xinhuanet]

Citizens take a stroll among the blossoming magnolia flowers in a park in Shanghai in this photo taken on March 17, 2009. Days of warm weather have brought the magnolia flower, the symbolic flower of Shanghai, to full bloom. [Photo: Xinhuanet]