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| Festival: People from the Miao ethnic group attend a ceremony to celebrate the Rain Praying Festival in Jianhe town of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, in Southwest China's Guizhou province, on July 10. The festival is celebrated to ask for good weather and a good harvest. Yang Wenbin / Xinhua |
| Harvest hope: The annual Fish Snatching Festival draws people of the Miao ethnic group to Liangshuang village in Rongshui Miao prefecture in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on July 9. The festival, in which people compete to grab as many fish as they can, is a tradition for the Miao people at a time when they pray for good harvests. Long Tao / Xinhua |
| Bubble fun: Residents play with foam during the Rainbow Bubble Run in Zhoushan, in eastern China's Zhejiang province on July 9. Wu Linhong / Xinhua |
| All aboard: Visitors signal "takeoff" on the deck of China's first aircraft carrier, the CNS Liaoning, on July 9, the last day of an open house for the carrier's flotilla in Hong Kong. Roy Liu / China Daily |
(China Daily European Weekly 07/14/2017 page5)
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