 | Thousands of residents stroll along a commercial district of Nanjiang Road in Shanghai. The week-long Lunar New Year holiday should be a grand opportunity for China's nouveaux riche to display their wealth, but a set of unique factors is preventing conspicuous consumption from taking off. click to open  |
 | Chinese revellers visit the riverside Bund district to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Shanghai February 10, 2005. China continue to enjoy its annual week-long Spring Festival holiday, welcoming the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | A Chinese traffic volunteer keeps watch as revellers walk in an underpass along the Bund district to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Shanghai February 10, 2005. China continues to enjoy its annual week-long Spring Festival holiday, welcoming the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | Tens of thousands of Chinese revellers flock along Nanjing shopping district to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Shanghai February 10, 2005. China continue to enjoy its annual week-long Spring Festival holiday, welcoming the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | A child in traditional costume reads during a performance outside a temple in Beijing. China's transport system was stretched to the limit while goods flew off shop shelves in a last-minute rush as 1.3 billion people -- a fifth of humanity -- prepared to celebrate Lunar New Year. click to open |
 | A Chinese man performs in a parade during the Chinese Lunar New Year Day at a temple fair in Beijing February 9, 2005. Tens of thousands of worshippers visited the ancient Taoist temple in China's capital to ring in the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | Chinese worshippers offer incense and pray during the Chinese Lunar New Year Day at the Baiyun Temple in Beijing February 9, 2005. Tens of thousands of worshippers visited the ancient Taoist temple in China's capital to ring in the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | Chinese worshippers offer incense and pray during the Chinese Lunar New Year Day at the Baiyun Temple in Beijing February 9, 2005. Tens of thousands of worshippers visited the ancient Taoist temple in China's capital to ring in the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | Chinese worshippers offer coins for prosperity while praying at Longhua Temple to greet the Lunar New Year in Shanghai February 9, 2005. Tens of thousands of worshippers visited the ancient temple in China's business capital to welcome in the Year of the Rooster. click to open |
 | Chinese burn incense sticks in an urn at Beijing's White Cloud Temple on Chinese New Year's Day Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005. Police later banned the burning of incense after winds rose, increasing the fire danger. The move followed a series of fire disasters in the past year which left hundreds dead in China. The Year of the Rooster began Wednesday, kicking off a week-long Spring Festival holiday, the most important in the Chinese calendar. click to open |
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