An old man begging on the streets looks on as fellow beggars walk in a line holding up signs to recruit female models for a company in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Tuesday, Oct. 10 2006. The beggars were paid 20 yuan (US$2.5) an hour by a behaviour artist to perform the job. Chinese leaders in Beijing wrap up an annual four-day meeting of the roughly 350-person Central Committee meant to take up efforts to spread China's new prosperity more evenly. [Beijing Evening Post]

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