China Cultural Chronicles June 20, 2012

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• Coal pickers

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  These old women collect pieces of coal wich remain in the slag between the rails. Often it´s used for kitchen heatings or stoves. On several places along the railwayline the steam locomotives wich serves the line drop down their slag on the track. (Yiajiang (Shibanxi) narrow gauge railway.
  
  China, Nov. 2005 (scanned slide)

• Weiping station

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  Weiping station at noon. JS 8375 passed the station with a coaltrain. The line Jinchengjiang - Pingzhai (Hechi) was one of the most scenic railwaylines in the south of china, wich was used by steamlocomtives until 2004.
  
  China province Guanxi Nov. 2001 (scanned slide)

• Chaoyang Park's beach-style fun

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  The Beijing Ocean & Beach Carnival celebrated its fourth birthday over the weekend when an opening ceremony was held at Chaoyang Park, featuring Brazilian samba dancers.

  The Carnival is the park's main marketing program in summer. It was previously the competition ground for beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Since that year, Chaoyang Park and Beijing Television Station has made the beach carnival an annual event, offering visitors fun in the water and sand. The carnival is expected to run until Sept 2.

  This year, besides summer items such as swimming and sand castle building, the organizers will also prepare ocean animal performances, samba dancing and clown shows, water skiing, beach babe (beauty) contests, and chances to see Beijing Guo'an soccer and Beijing Jinyu basketball players. A huge LED screen shows sporting contests.

  Prices are 80 yuan ($12.70) on workdays, 50 yuan for night tickets and 120 yuan on weekends and holidays.

  
• Lavender flowers in Xinjiang

  

  Farmers reap lavender flowers in Huocheng County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 19, 2012. [Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao]

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• A snapshot of Austria

  

  Austria is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. [Souhu.com]

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• Magnificent view of Kuitun Grand Canyon

  

  Magnificent view of Kuitun Grand Canyon, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located at north foot of Tianshan Mountain, Kuitun Grand Canyon is of the stratum consisting of gravel and sand completely, which should be the seabed in the distant past, and uplift to be the land after geological movement. [Sohu]

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