 | Nineteen candidates in the Competition for the Charming Sailors on the Marine Silk Road pose for cameras in Guangzhou in June 2006. The two winners, one male and the other female, will board the wooden built replica of Gothenburg on behalf of Guangzhou citizens when it sails towards Guangzhou. The Swedish ship ÒG?theborag" will reach Guangzhou in July 2006 and Shanghai in August 2006. It will then start its homeward journey from Hong Kong, in December 2006. click to open  |
 | Bird flu in Mainland China: A couple delivers chickens by motorcycle in Guangzhou, in the Guangdong province, January 31, 2004. China named four more places, two in Anhui province, one in Guangdong and one in the city of Shangai, where outbreaks of the deadly virus were suspected. click to open |
 | A policeman tries to control travelers arriving at a railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 31, 2004. A massive movement of people in China of up to hundreds of millions at the tail end of the Lunar New Year holidays poses a challenge to the control of the spread of bird flu. click to open |
 | 2004 Spring Festival in Guangzhou: a flower decor on the streets of Guangzhou, on the Chinese New Year, January 22, 2004. click to open |
 | 2004 Spring Festival in Guangzhou: dragon dance in downtown Guangzhou's Beijing Road on the first day of lunar Chinese New Year on Jan 22nd, 2004. click to open |
 | A worker installs a Chinese character which reads 'Spring' at a park in Guangzhou, southern China, January 17, 2004. The Chinese New Year of the Monkey begins on January 22. click to open |
 | A Chinese traveller carries his baby on his shoulder at a railway station in Guangzhou, southern China, January 17, 2004. In what may be the world's largest annual movement of people, transport officials are expecting hundreds of millions of people to take a total of 1.89 billion trips as they visit relatives or go sightseeing in the coming days to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Monkey which begins on January 22. click to open |
 | A Chinese man unloads chickens at a market in Guangzhou, southern China, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004. China on Thursday banned all chicken imports from Vietnam, Japan and South Korea over fears of a bird flu spreading rapidly as its health ministry issued an urgent notice for vigilance against the disease. click to open |
 | Chinese workers prepare to put drugs into a furnace in Guangzhou June 25, 2004. Guangzhou authorities destroyed more than two tons of confiscated drugs, about 70 percent of which were amphetamines. Local authorities in the southern province of Guangdong are cracking down heavily on drug trafficking ahead of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking which falls on Saturday. click to open |
 | A city sculpture display in Guangzhou on June 26th 2004 click to open |
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