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Buns to steal: Participants take part on May 15 in bun scrambling, a traditional custom in which people clamber up a tower to grab steamed buns. It's an important part of an annual festival in Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong. Wu Yongjian / Xinhua |
Assessor gadget: Nursing home residents interact with a robot called A Tie on May 17 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The robot helps track changes in people's health data, and facilitates video conferencing and telemedicine. Long Wei / For China Daily |
High step: A ballet troupe poses at China's first musical glass pathway in Shiniuzhai National Geological Park, Hunan province, on May 16. The 180-meter-long pathway runs along a cliff 300 meters above ground. One of 70 different tunes is played when people step on a portion of the glass floor. Xu Xing / For China Daily |
Real kung fu panda: A giant panda plays at the Bifengxia reserve in Ya'an in Southwest China's Sichuan province. With a bamboo basket on its head, the 1-year-old cub in a makeshift straw hat looks like Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda movies. Li Wei / For China Daily |
Cool dog: A handler trains a police dog to jump through a flaming ring at a provincial public security department camp in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, on May 15. An open day was held at the camp to show how police dogs are trained. Deng Gang / Xinhua |
(China Daily European Weekly 05/20/2016 page5)
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