China week in pictures | April 24-30, 2021

A weekly picture selection of other news, events or sights in China...

𝟭. April 27 – Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, famous for his huge rubber duck floating in cities around the world built a 15 meter high leaping squirrel peeking in a new shopping mall in Chongqing, called Shanshan.

𝟮. April 30 - Hongqiao high speed railway station, thousands of people taking high speed trains going back to their hometown or for a holiday. May1-5 is national holiday in China.

𝟯. April 26 - Tourists at the '100 mile Azalea Forest' in bloom at the Longquan mountain in Guizhou.

𝟰. April 26 – Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province has overtaken Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as the world's busiest aviation hub in 2020.

𝟱. April 27 – Super ‘pink’ full moon, seen in Wuhan, Hubei province.

𝟲. April 29 – The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the Tianhe module, launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province. The rocket carries the Tianhe core module for building the Tiangong space station, scheduled to be completed end of next year.

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