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China Daily Europe | Updated: 2015-11-20 08:11

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Tumbling down: A building purported to be the tallest ever demolished in China was brought down at 7 am on Nov 15 in Xi'an, in Northwest China's Shaanxi province. The 27-story building was 118 meters high. It had been abandoned too long to be refurbished, officials said. Yuan Jingzhi / For China Daily

Big fish on the mend: A wild Chinese sturgeon named Houfu gets a hand from a diver on Nov 16, when it arrived at the Beijing Aquarium. The rare animal, 3.4 meters long and 310 kilograms, was rescued from the Yangtze River after it was injured by local fishermen last year. It was sent to Beijing Aquarium for further recuperation. Cheng Gong / For China Daily

Always prepared: Two environmental protection workers in a simulation exercise draw a water sample from a well in Beijing on Nov 11 to monitor pollutants. They were part of an emergency drill responding to hypothetical explosions and a chemical leak scenario at a plant in the city's Tongzhou district. Firefighters also participated. Zhang Wei / China Daily

Make your own: Zhang Jiansheng, 62, shows off his two homemade cars in Daxing township of Hefei, East China's Anhui province, on Nov 13. Old bicycles, used sofas and mosquito netting are all useful items for Zhang, who has made more than 30 models of aircraft carriers, destroyers and pirate ships. The cars are powered by batteries and have a range of about 30 kilometers. Xie Chen / For China Daily

Hand of the Tiger: Five-year-old Xiaohu, or "Little Tiger", is fitted with an artificial left hand on Nov 16. The new hand was designed and made by doctors at Wuhan Third Hospital in Hubei province using a 3-D printer. Xiaohu's hand was amputated after it was burned in an accident two years ago. Jin Siliu / For China Daily

(China Daily European Weekly 11/20/2015 page29)

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