Snapshots

Run & fun: Participants in the Color Run in Dongguan, Guangdong province, on April 12. Runners are doused from head to toe in different colors after each kilometer. Chen Fan / For China Daily |
Fowl tactics: A cockfight in the Dai autonomous region, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Hao Yaxin / For China Daily |
Aerial acrobatics: The Chinese national pole dancing team performs at a light aircraft show in Tianjin on April 13. Adrian J. Tony / For China Daily |
For non-conformists only: An event featuring unconventional games attracted more than 300 foreign students from more than 50 countries at Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang province, on April 12. Liu Yang / For China Daily |
Strength of character: On a 100 square-meter piece of paper, calligraphy artist Xu Xiaodong writes the 56-stroke character biang, one of the most complicated Chinese characters, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on April 13. The character refers to a traditional type of noodles in the region. Yuan Jingzhi / China Daily |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 04/18/2014 page5)
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