Collage: China’s Week in Photos, March 13-19

Yang Shenlai

2017-03-19 10:17:55

In this Week in Photos, law enforcement officers destroy fake Chanel purses on World Consumer Rights Day, a sperm whale dies after becoming tangled in fishing nets, and Chinese stores remove mentions of South Korea from signs due to widespread anti-South Korea sentiment.

1/7 Assistants prepare for a press conference during the fifth session of the 12th National People’s Congress in Beijing, March 14, 2017. Sun Nan/VCG

2/7 The body of a sperm whale is lifted ashore following its death three days after becoming tangled in fishing nets off the coast of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, March 15, 2017. Xu Wenge/VCG

3/7 A worker removes part of a sign displaying the Chinese characters for ‘South Korea’ at a shop in Shanghai, March 15, 2017. Aly Song/Reuters/VCG

4/7 A law enforcement officer destroys a fake Chanel purse during an event on World Consumer Rights Day, Harbin, Heilongjiang province, March 15, 2017. IC

5/7 A farmer rides a homemade ‘kongming’s contraption,’ a Trojan horse-like apparatus, on the ice in Jilin, Jilin province, March 14, 2017. Zhu Wangchang/VCG

6/7 A Chinese man pushes a shopping cart with his girlfriend inside at an IKEA store in Beijing, March 14, 2017. Roman Pilipey/EPA/IC

7/7 Window cleaners rappel down the facade of a skyscraper in Beijing, March 18, 2017. Thomas Peter/Reuters/VCG