
A tricycle rider waits for customers beside a grocer's stalls through an ancient gateway in Leshan, in China's southwestern Sichuan province, 25 November 2007. Chinese President Hu Jintao and the nation's political elite have made preventing economic overheating and curbing inflation their top priorities for next year, state media reported 28 November.

China-heritage-archaeology-religion-Mogaoby Dan Martin In the cool gloom of a sandstone cavern restorers work on crumbling, 1,000-year-old Buddhist frescos in the Mogao Grottoes complex in remote Gansu province in northwestern China 24 October 2007. Among the world's greatest collections of Buddhist art, the cave frescoes were created beginning 1,650 years ago as eternal tributes to Buddha but are today fading away from age, tourist pressures and climate change.
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