Wednesday June 19 2013

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Zhang Chunxian, Party secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is surrounded by reporters after a meeting of deputies from Xinjiang to the National People's Congress in Beijing on Wednesday. (Photo by Feng Yongbin / China Daily)
A model of the C919 commercial airliner made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China is on display at the Aviation Expo in Beijing on Sept 21. (Photo by Xinhua)
Beijing Jingneng Thermal Power Co Ltd, one of the capital city's largest coal-fired heating and power plants, is located beside Lianshi Lake in Shijingshan district, about 20 kilometers west of Tian'anmen Square. (Photo by Li Wenming / for China Daily)
Zou Ping (center), a deputy of the National People's Congress, poses for a photo with Brigitta Backstrom (right), wife of the Finnish ambassador to China, and Paula Parviainen, deputy head of mission with the Finnish embassy in China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday. (Photo by Zou Hong / China Daily)
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Gao Weiwei (right), a lecturer, talks to students about the human body at a summer camp focusing on sex education. The camp, believed to be the first of its kind in Shanghai, was established in 2009. (Photo by Zhang Dong / for China Daily)
A construction worker at the building site of a subsidized housing project in Tuohu Lake town, Anhui province. (Liu Xijun / Xinhua)
President Hu Jintao greets female deputies from Yunnan province to the National People's Congress on Wednesday, a day before International Women's Day. Hu and other senior leaders joined lawmakers in panel discussions on the government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao. (Liu Weibing / Xinhua)
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A left-behind woman works at a clothes factory with her child in Henan province in February. (Photos by Xiang Mingchao / China Daily)
Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple, enters the Great Hall of the People for the opening ceremony of the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress as journalists jostle for photos and interviews on Monday. (Photo by China News Service)
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Zhou Yan, a 17-year-old girl whose face and body were burned when a classmate splashed burning lighter fluid on her in September in Anhui province, arrives at a plastic surgery hospital in Beijing on Monday. (Li Muyi / for China Daily)
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