Snapshots
| Kung fu fighting: Monks at Quanzhou Shaolin Temple perform martial arts in Quanzhou, Fujian province, on May 15. Wei Peiquan / Xinhua |
| Project runway: Foreign models wear works by teachers and students from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on May 16. All are paper dresses with Chinese paintings. Wu Huang / For China Daily |
| A walk in the clouds: A tightrope walker from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region walks backwards while blindfolded on a tightrope between the highest twin towers in Kunming, Yunnan province, on May 16. He walked for about 100 meters, about 150 meters above the ground. Zhou Mingjia / For China Daily |
| Artificial intelligence: Primary school students watch a display on robots in Hefei, Anhui province, at the opening ceremony of the University of Science and Technology of China's science week on May 16. Zhang Duan / Xinhua |
| A light touch: Zou Wengang, a student from Changsha Automotive Technical School, cuts a steel wire fixed on top of a bulb at an event promoting vocational education in Changsha, Hunan province, on May 18. Zou says he can cut three such wires within a minute while keeping the bulbs intact. Zou Qiang / China Daily |
(China Daily European Weekly 05/22/2015 page5)
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