China Cultural Chronicles February 8, 2013

• Chinese Lions

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  Photo by Sherrie Thai of Shaireproductions.com

• Chinese Lions

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  Photo by Sherrie Thai of Shaireproductions.com

• Enter The Year of Snake 2013

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• Sea of clouds after rainfall at Huangshan Mountain

  

  Photo taken on Feb. 6, 2013 shows the sea of clouds after a rainfall at the Huangshan Mountain scenic spot in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province. [Xinhua/Shi Guangde]

  
• Festive mood spreads in New York's China Town

  Local residents look at the traditional decorations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in China Town, New York, the United States, Feb. 6, 2013. The Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, starts on Feb. 10 this year. [Xinhua/Wang Lei]

  
• Little girl "totally in her own world" showcasing candy to sell, Tibet 2012

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• Rolling on the River

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  The foolish man builds his house upon the sand, and I bet that a riverbed would be almost as bad. I wouldn't want to be living there when the snow from the mountains start melting in the Spring.

• People enjoy lantern show in Baotuquan Park of Jinan

  Photo taken on Feb. 6, 2013 shows a dragon-boat-shaped festive lantern displayed at a lantern show in Baotuquan Park of Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. The 34th Baotuquan Spring Festival lantern show kick off on Wednesday at the park. [Xinhua]

  
• Australia becomes popular with Chinese tourists

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  The number of Chinese visitors to Australia has tripled over the last ten years, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

  The ABS says China has become Australia's second largest source of overseas tourists, with one in ten visitors coming from there.

  The ABS figures showed 630,000 visits to Australia in 2012 were from China, a big jump from 190,000 in 2002.

  Asian countries such as China, India, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea are in Australia's top ten visitors list.

  "New Zealand remains our biggest source of overseas short-term visitor arrivals with 1.2 million trips in 2012 or one in five visitors coming from there, but China is now in second place with one in ten, followed by the UK, the USA and Japan," ABS Assistant Director of Demography Neil Scott said in a statement.

  "The top five countries alone provided more than half of last years overseas visitors, and there were an extra 85,000 visits from China - an increase of 16 percent."