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  • Farmer Liu Dongqing smokes a cigarette in a two-room mud house in Yongfu, on February 27, 2006. Liu said he must pay 2,700 yuan for the right to farm his land this year, a third of the 7,000 yuan to 8,000 yuan he expects to make. That will leave Liu and his wife the equivalent of less than $1 a day each to live on. The increase in fees has forced the couple to cut down to two meals a day, Liu said. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Chinese troops are sent West to repress Tibetan protests, in Tibetan region, China, on March 22, 2008. China has been grappling to quell unrest in several Tibetan towns and villages in the country's west, after Buddhist monk-led demonstrations in Tibet's capital Lhasa turned violent. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Three-year-old Gao Xiang cries from pain under the massage aimed to help her stiff legs, damaged since birth, while her mother holds her hand, in Cerebral Palsy Hospital, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, on November 15, 2007. Gao Xiang is holding a 1 Chinese Yuan (0.14 US$) banknote in her right hand that her mother gave her as a reward if she kept quiet. China's rate of birth defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, China's National Population and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its web site (www.chinapop.gov.cn). China's coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, a centre of noxious emissions from large-scale coke and chemical industries, had the highest rate of birth defects, Xinhua news agency said. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Children play in the middle of CNPC oil pipes in a residential complex in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 14, 2006. China National Petroleum Corp is the mother company of PetroChina. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • Young monks get ready for prayer in Kunghua monastery, in Tibetan region, China, on March 22, 2008. Kunghua monastery has been surrounded by Chinese police and its monks forced to stay inside in order to prevent them to join the Tibetan protesting movement that started on March 10. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A People's Armed policeman stands foot in front on Mao Zedong's portrait on Tianamen gate, in Tianamen square, Beijing, China, on March 2, 2006. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank.

  • Gamblers play craps in City of dreams casino, in Macao, China, on December 17, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Security guards in Shanghai, China, on May 14, 2008. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Soldiers in riot gear walk through the main square in the city of Kangding, located around 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, on March 21, 2008. China has been grappling to quell unrest in several Tibetan towns and villages in the country's west, after Buddhist monk-led demonstrations in Tibet's capital Lhasa turned violent last week. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • China National Bureau of Statistics Spokesman Zhen Jingping speaks during China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) conference in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 20, 2006. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • South Korean trade unionist gestiures to calm Hong Kong riot police during protests against the World Trade Organization's Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, China, Wednesday, December 14, 2005. Anti-World Trade Organization activists clashed with Hong Kong riot police close to a meeting of ministers from 149 states in the second day of protests against global trade talks. Photographer: Lucas Schifres/Bloomberg News..

  • 70-year old farmer Qi Shenglian talks to reporters in his farm that exploits fields claimed over the Tengeli desert, near Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, China, on May 8, 2007. Photographer: Lucas Schifres/Pictobank.

  • A little boy hangs up a sign with the Chinese character 'fu' meaning 'happiness' in Shanghai, China, on January 24, 2009. The character is placed on purpose upside down to make a play on words in Chinese between 'upside down' and 'arrived' which are homophenic. Therefore it can be read as 'happiness arrived'. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Mao Zedong's portrait looks at passers by in Shanghai, China, on January 8, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Yinyi Windpower worker Wei Lin poses in front of a windmill at Yinyi Windpower's windfarm, near Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, China, on May 9, 2007. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Not minding his harelip, 3.5-month-old baby boy Li Zechen smiles in the arms of his mother Fan Yanmei in the People's hospital of Jinzhong, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, November 15, 2007. China's rate of birth defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, China's National Population and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its web site (www.chinapop.gov.cn). China's coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, a centre of noxious emissions from large-scale coke and chemical industries, had the highest rate of birth defects, Xinhua news agency said. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Traders work in the trading room of Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai, China, on September 25, 2008. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • While wealthier Shanghai inhabitants cross the street, Wu Wenyi poses for a photograph, in Shanghai, China, on February 17, 2009. Wu Wenyi came to Shanghai from Quanjiao, Anhui province two months ago to find construction work but failed. During his stay in Shanghai, all his money, 200 RMB (eq. 23 euros) was stolen. Now Wu hangs out in Shanghai trainstation, willing to go back home, but having no money to buy the train ticket. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Villepin joue d'un orgue traditionnel chinois fait de cloches, au temple de Confucius, à Nankin, province du Jiangsu, Chine, le 3 septembre 2009. Photo : Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Li Fang (gauche) explique à sa petite-fille Li Siqi (droite) qu'il faut rapprocher son bol pour manger son riz avec des baguettes. L'enfant, qui se sert pour une des premières fois de sa vie de baguettes, s'exclaffe devant le mime du grand-père, à Baoshan, près de Shanghai, le 10 mai 2008. Photo par Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Workers place sandbags across the Hei Tao Ba river in an attempt to contain water turned white by a nearby gas leak in Gao Qiao village, Kai Xian county, Chongqing Municipality, China, Friday, March 31, 2006.

  • U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown speaks during a news conference as part of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Singapore, Sunday, September 17, 2006. Brown said global economic growth next year will be "robust" and said higher oil costs may spur inflation. Photographer: Lucas Schifres/Bloomberg News.

  • A worker harvests cotton in a cotton field near Korla, Xinjiang province, China, Tuesday, October 10, 2006.

  • Li Yan sits in her wheel-chair while her mother Song Fengying seats behind it, outside their house in Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, China, on May 7, 2007. 28-year-old Li Yan suffers from motor neuron disease also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS), the same illness that has thereotical physicist Stephen Hawking. Li Yan asked China's National People's Congress (NPC) to consider a draft on euthanasia. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Pedestrians walk up an elevator in Xujiahui neighborhood, in Shanghai, China, on February 1, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank



  • Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao raises the finger with his watch in his hand to tell reporters he will only allow two more questions during the closing press conference of the National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • Car traffic passes by elevated highways at dusk in Shanghai, China, on July 26, 2007. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • The North Korean border post on the Chinese-North Korean border, as seen from Kaishantun, Jilin province, China, on May 10, 2009. Little is known about ordinary North Koreans and how they live. On the border post banners say 'Hail to General Kim Jong-Il, sun of the 21st century' and 'Defend with your life the revolutionary headquarters whose chief is comrade great Kim Il-Sung'. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Uyghurs use a truck on the Desert highway to cross the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang province, China, on October 12, 2006. The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Uyghur students study Mandarin Chinese in Hetian Experimental Billingual School, in Hetian, Xinjiang province, China, on October 13, 2006. The Uyghur people are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A toddler plays in rubble in an old neighborhood in the process of being demolished to make way to more modern residences like the ones in the background, in Shanghai, China, on April 2, 2010. The house on the left is a 'nailhouse', i.e. one of the last remaining houses preventing the development project to be completed. On the wall the Chinese characters say that the 'Water (is) cut'. Photo Lucas Schifres/Pictobank


  • Front Page of Financial Times (USA) on December 29, 2005. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Bloomberg

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