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A pedestrian walks past real estate leaflets displayed in a street of Hong Kong on June 12, 2012. Property prices in Hong Kong, famous for its sky-high rent and super-rich tycoons, have surged over the past couple of years due to record low interest rates and a flood of wealthy buyers from mainland China.
An Air China flight attendant stands near model planes at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 68th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Beijing Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Worldwide, airlines should make total profits this year of US$3 billion on revenues of US$631 billion - a 0.5 percent margin, the IATA said in an industry outlook released as it opened its annual general meeting in Beijing.
A makeshift memorial for Lin Jun, murdered Chinese student, close to Concordia University is seen on June 11, 2012 in Montreal, Canada. More then two weeks after the murder of the Chinese student Lin Jun, fellow students, Chinese immigrants and ordinary people are still bringing fresh flowers and sympathy messages to the improvised memorial close to Concordia university i9n Montreal where he studied. They have put Lin's picture on a monument to Norman Bethune, a Canadian surgeon who worked as war doctor with the Mao Zedong Communist army and died in China in 1939. Police believe Lin was murdered and dismembered by a porn actor, Luka Rocco Magnotta, arrested in Berlin and awaiting extradition.
In a photo taken on June 11, 2012 a boy plays in a square in Tianjin. The boom in the Chinese tourism market is raising competition between travel agencies with foreign travel companies in China eyeing a slice of the lucrative Chinese tourism market, state media has reported.
In photos taken on June 11, 2012 shows workers as they install solar panels near the Sino-Singapore Eco-city near Tianjin. According to a UN report investment in solar energy surged to 147 billion US dollars in 2011, a year-on-year increase of 52 percent thanks to strong demand for rooftop photovoltaic installations in Germany, Italy, China and Britain, with several large US and German manufacturers falling victim to price pressure from Chinese rivals that helped to halve the cost of photovoltaic modules.
This picture taken on June 9, 2012, shows a Chinese ethnic minority woman with her baby on her back as she waits for customers at a street market in Qingyanguzhen, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, which is one of the four military towns built some 600 years ago during Ming and Qing periods. More than 56 million tourists visited various villages around Guizhou in 2011, to experience the rich and colourful cultures of different ethnic groups, including the Miao, Dong, Yi, Tujia and Buyi, creating more than one million jobs in tourism related industries.
This picture taken on June 9, 2012, shows a group of Chinese ethnic minority tribesmen rest as a young boy plays with a horn they use to welcome visitors to Qingyanguzhen, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, which is one of the four military towns built some 600 years ago during Ming and Qing periods.
This picture taken on June 9, 2012, shows a visitors shop along a street in Qingyanguzhen, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, which is one of the four military towns built some 600 years ago during Ming and Qing periods.
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 08: Chinese people walk past the Giorgio Armani store on June 8, 2012 in Beijing, China. According to the World Luxury Association 2011 annual official report , China is expected to replace Japan as the world's top consumer of luxury goods by 2012 with an expected luxury goods sales value of 14.6 billion U.S. dollars due to China's growing demand and declining consumption in Japan.
This picture taken on June 9, 2012, shows a Chinese ethnic minority tribeswoman waits for customers at a stall in Qingyanguzhen, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, which is one of the four military towns built some 600 years ago during Ming and Qing periods.
This picture taken on June 9, 2012, shows a group of Chinese ethnic minority tribesmen play a traditional musical instrument to entertain visitors in Qingyanguzhen, located in the southern suburbs of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province.
China's Xue Chen, left, and Zhang Xi, celebrate winning over The United States' Misty May-Treanor, and Kerri Walsh during a women's final match at the Beach Volleyball World Tour Grand Slam in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 11, 2012. China won the match 2-0.
A Chinese woman carries her daughter who is wearing a mask as they make their way along a busy intersection in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on June 11, 2012. The Chinese metropolis of Wuhan was blanketed by thick yellowish cloud, raising fears of pollution among its nine million inhabitants, as air pollution is increasingly acute in major Chinese cities and authorities are frequently accused of underestimating the severity of the problem in urban areas, especially in Beijing.
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