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Scavengers picking up useful construction waste from a garbage dump in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province on December 9, 2012.
China's wealth gap has widened to a level where it is among the world's most unequal nations, a Chinese academic institute said in a survey, as huge numbers of poor are left behind by the economic boom.
-- Agence France-Presse
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A laborer eats dinner in his shelter at the construction site of a residential complex in Hefei, Anhui province, on August 1, 2012.
The average home price in China's 100 major cities edged up in July for the second straight month, Reuters reports, reinforcing signs of a recovery in the property market even as the government seeks to spur broader economic growth, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday.
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A man covers himself with a plastic bag as he rides his electric bicycle amid heavy rains along a street in Hefei, Anhui province, China on May 10.
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People queue to buy laba porridge at a temple during the Laba Festival in Hefei, Anhui province, January 11. The Laba Festival, which falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar, commemorates the date of Sakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment. Having laba porridge during the Laba Festival is believed to bring good fortune.
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