Workers hang a new Mao Zedong portrait on the Tian'anmen Rostrum on Tuesday before celebrations of the National Day. [Photo/VCG]Workers hang a new Mao Zedong portrait on the Tian'anmen Rostrum on Tuesday before celebrations of the National Day. [Photo/VCG]
A worker maintains part of a miniature replica of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) Daming Palace on Sunday. The 1:15 scale replica, which is built on the original site of the palace in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, has more than 1,100 buildings. It was opened to the public in 2010. [Photo by Stephenshaver/China Daily]
A woman admires a giant grouper at a restaurant in Qionghai, Hainan province, on Wednesday. The 1.76-meter-long fish, which weighs 118 kilograms, was caught by a fisherman in the ocean near Boao and sold to the restaurant for 16,900 yuan ($2,530). [Photo by Meng Zhongde/China Daily]
Tourists and local residents participate in a muddy soccer match in Housangyuan village of Wuyi county, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. About 1,000 tourists attended the village's annual tourism festival, which also included fish-catching and bullfighting. [Photo by Zhang
More than 50 whipping top enthusiasts gather to whip a giant top in turn at a plaza in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Sunday. Gao Wei, a local enthusiast, invested 100,000 yuan ($14,992) in the making of the trompo, with the wood being imported from Australia, weighing nearly 500 kg. [Photo by Sun Xinming/China Daily]
A girl sits in a back basket as a woman carries her in the mountains of Enshi Grand Canyon scenic area in Central China's Hubei province, on Sept 10, 2016. As many parents take their children to that scenic area during the vacations, some locals have invented a new business of carrying the child tourists in their back baskets through the steep mountains. There are 34 basket carriers in total, most of whom are women. They charge 320 yuan ($48) for a whole trip of four mountains. Children under 10 and weighing less 30 kg are carried by women and children over 40 kg by men. They can on average make 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per month. [Photo/VCG]
Dancers perform with Ansai waist drums on Nanjing Road in Shanghai on Sunday to celebrate the Shanghai Tourism Festival. The festival started on Saturday and runs through Oct 6. The waist drum performance originated in Ansai county, Shaanxi province, and was added to the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. [Photo/China Daily]
A Western-themed airplane restaurant opens in Wuhan, the capital city of Central China's Hubei province on September 9, 2016. The restaurant is a retired Boeing 737 aircraft from the now defunct Indonesian carrier Batavia Air, which was bought by a local businessman for 35 million yuan, or $5.36 million. [Photo/qq.com]
Chinese man Pan Yizhong eats a two-kilogram mooncake during a challenge in Changsha city, Central China's Hunan province, Sept 12, 2016. [Photo/IC]
Dancers from the US perform while suspended over the side of a cliff in the Tianmen mountains in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, on Sunday. The dance troupe, Bandaloop, interweaves choreography and sport climbing in their performances. Bandaloop also gave a show on the glass walls of a skyscraper in Shanghai last year. [Photo by James adamson/For China Daily]
Work to connect the main part of a bridge, nearly 570 meters above a valley, was wrapped up on Sept 10 in Southwest China's Guizhou province. With a height equivalent to a 200-storey building, the Beipanjiang bridge is the highest in the world by the vertical distance from the bridge deck down to the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span, said Wu Dahong, an official with Guizhou's transport department, citing public data on high bridges that have been completed across the globe. [Photo/VCG]
Yoga fans practice at a sinkhole named as Moon Rock in Daoxian County of Central China's Hunan province, Sept 11, 2016. More than 50 Yoga fans came to the Moon Rock sinkhole to practice Yoga and relax. [Photo/Xinhua]