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Beijing Aquarium staffers perform an underwater dragon dance for the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival, on Feb 5, 2013.
More than 50 overseas students from over 20 countries and regions experienced Chinese traditional cultural activities with local students.
The 12-year-old Geng fell into an ice hole while playing on the ice at the park. The boy was rescued by a passing man who left silently after Geng was taken to the hospital. Geng said he might be a policeman.
Li Tianzeng, of Foshan city, Guangdong province, has been staying in a glass box with his pet python, Jan 31, 2013.
Tianjin Wanda Tyre Group has hired 49 buses to take more than 2,000 workers home, to such places as Shandong, Anhui and Henan, and will pick them up after Spring Festival. Since 2009, more than 8,000 workers have been taken home, with a package of Tianjin special local products.
Many single people went to the match-making fair in Nanjing in the hope of finding a mate before Spring Festival with some born after 1990 taking part.
At a time when officials have been told to rein in lavish spending and banquets, one man has taken decadent pampering to a whole new level by splashing out 100, 000 yuan ($16,045) to be bathed like an emperor.
A mother helps her girl roll a spring pancake in Beijing February 4, 2013. Monday marked the Beginning of Spring this year, the first of the 24 solar terms, according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It is a tradition in China to eat a flour pancake, which usually contains rolled up vegetables, fried egg and deli food dipped into thick broad-bean sauce. Chinese people refer to eating this stuffed-pancake roll as "Yaochun", which literally means "biting the spring".
Colored lanterns are seen at a lantern festival in Fuyang, East China's Anhui province, Feb 3, 2013.
The country has been pushing for more effort to improve the income of China's grassroots but has much changed over the years?
For many the bears add some fun to the crowded or perhaps tiresome journey.
Most parts of Central and East China will see snow or rain in the next three days, according to forecasts, which is likely to put even more pressure on transportation authorities during the ongoing travel peak.