Snapshots
| FLYING SQUAD: Border police are being used in Yancheng Coastal Wetlands, Jiangsu province, to protect the land and its birds, like this red-crowned crane. Zhang Shanyu / for China Daily |
| READY RECKONING: A student at an abacus training school in Fuzhou, Fujian province, on Dec 7. UNESCO added the Chinese abacus to the World Intangible Heritage list on Dec 4. Jinag Kehong / Xinhua |
| WARM WELCOME: Chinese navy officers greet the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring as it arrives in Shanghai on Dec 10. The ship had earlier been in the Philippines delivering aid after the devastation wrought by typhoon Haiyan. Carlos Barria / Reuters |
| SOCCER FEVER: Fuleco, the armadillo mascot for the World Cup soccer finals in Brazil next year, on a promotional tour in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Dec 9. Li Zhong / for China daily |
| SMOG WEAR: Masks are the garb of the day at a jewelry fashion show in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Dec 7. Extreme air pollution shrouded cities across China recently. AFP |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 12/13/2013 page4)
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