Collage: China’s Week in Photos, Jan. 22-28

Collage: China’s Week in Photos, Jan. 22-28

A selection of the week’s best photos by Sixth Tone’s visual editors.

Jan 28, 2018#vivid tones

In this Week in Photos, China welcomes the first primates cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer; people queue up for free rice porridge during the Laba Festival; and Shanghai experiences its first snowfall of the year.

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Two cloned macaques, Zhongzhong and Huahua, at a nonhuman primate research facility in Shanghai, Jan. 20, 2018. Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Neuroscience/VCG

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People queue up at Jing’an Temple in Shanghai for free Laba porridge, which is believed to bring good fortune, Jan. 24, 2018. The Laba Festival falls on the eighth day of the 12th Chinese lunar calendar month and celebrates Sakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment. Aly Song/Reuters

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Paramilitary police officers take part in a simulated counter-terrorism exercise in Xinzhou, Shanxi province, Jan. 22, 2018. Yuan Haoxiang/VCG

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People on a cart as snow falls in Huaibei, Anhui province, Jan. 25, 2018. Wan Chaoshan/VCG

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A man comforts a woman at his son’s funeral in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Jan. 26, 2018. The man’s son died while rescuing the woman after she jumped into a river. Tao Ke/Chengdu Business Daily/VCG

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Employees of Jiangsu Hengshun Group inspect snow-covered vats at a vinegar and soy sauce mill in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, Jan. 25, 2018. IC

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Tables and chairs outside a restaurant are dusted with snow during Shanghai’s first snowfall of the year, Jan. 24, 2018. IC