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Wrap Zong Zi A female resident of Beian community teaches a soldier of Ningxia Armed Police to make Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, as the Dragon Boat Festival draws near in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, June 19, 2012. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which falls on June 23 this year. 

Foreigners learn to wrap Zong Zi Foreigners learn to wrap "Zong Zi", a kind of glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, in Meiling Township of Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 18, 2012. Over ten foreign students of Chinese medicine college of Jiangxi visited a farmhouse here on Monday to greet the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on June 23 this year. 

Astronauts in the orbiting lab module Tiangong-1 received their first e-mail from Earth on Tuesday afternoon(June 20, 2012), the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) confirmed.

Contestants from east China Two contestants from southwest China's Guizhou Province perform during a tea art performing contest held at the Maliandao street in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2012. A total of 20 teams from Beijing as well as Jiangxi, Anhui, Guizhou and Jiangsu provinces took part in the contest here on Tuesday.

Zong Zi in Malaysia People make "Zong Zi" together in Pandan, Selangor, Malaysia, June 17, 2012. About 150 people made "Zong Zi" together in Pandan to celebrate the coming Dragon Boat Festival. "Zong Zi" is a kind of glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to form a pyramid shape, usually made to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which falls on June 23 this year. 

Metro System in Shanghai The Shanghai Metro is the urban rapid transit system of China's largest city, Shanghai. The system incorporates both subway (地铁, dì tiě) and light rail (轻轨, qīnɡ ɡuǐ) lines. It opened in 1995, making Shanghai the third city in Mainland China, after Beijing and Tianjin, to have a rapid transit system. Since then, the Shanghai Metro has become one of the fastest-growing rapid transit systems in the world.

Watch Dragon Boat Competition Two dragon boats compete on the Xiaonanhe River in Sanhe Town of Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, June 16, 2012. A dragon boat competition was held here on Saturday to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese traditional lunar calendar, or June 23 this year.

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