orange woman "close up"

Yantai - Central - A woman arranges her "oranges" at a stall in a small backstreet in the centre of the city - afternoon
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orange woman - square # 35

Yantai - Central - A woman arranges her "oranges" at a stall in a small backstreet in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

black on white

Yantai - South - Black Chinese characters on an old wall in the southern section of the city - afternoon
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'orange' street vendor - square # 34

Yantai - Central - A man stands by his 'biketruck' on the corner of a busy street in the centre of the city, hawking oranges - afternoon
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on the wall

Yantai - Central - An old painting advertising a tailor on the wall of a Hutong (Traditional Chinese alley dwelling) in a "nong tang" (alley) in the centre of the city - afternoon
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crowded

Yantai - south - Crowded apartment "dwellings" in the southern section of the city - The real income of the poorest 10% of China's 1.4 billion people fell by 2.4% in the two years to 2003, an analysis by World Bank economists has found. Meanwhile, average incomes for China's richest rose by more than 16%. The findings challenge the basis of government policies aimed at narrowing the country's politically sensitive wealth gap, which President Hu Jintao has made a centerpiece of his administration's economic policies. The Chinese have understated the extent of poverty by defining it as roughly US$83 in annual income, equal to about 5% of average per capita income. The U.S. definition of poverty is 12% of average per capita income. - afternoon
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hardware

Yantai - south - In the southern section of the city a man enters a small hardware store, crowded with plastic buckets and pipes which "spill" onto the already crowded sidewalk - afternoon
photo: mhobbs