From Robots to Rubber Ducks: Beijing in Photos

 

 

You'll recognize this Reuters photo from our coverage on the illegal rooftop villa a wealthy former member of a district People's Political Consultative Conference built for six years before local authorities told him to he had to deconstruct it.

 

 

China sent their first teacher to space on the Shenzhou 10 this summer and officially got on board an international telescope project. Here, Chinese children are pointing at a moon exhibit at Beijing's Science and Technology Museum. "Beijing sees the multi-billion-dollar space program as a marker of its rising global stature and mounting technical expertise, as well as the ruling Communist Party's success in turning around the fortunes of the once poverty-stricken nation," according to The Atlantic.

 

 

They've captured everything from solemn prayer at Niujie Mosque...

 

 

...to the wild Color Run finale.

 

 

 

Beijing finally received Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman's duck at the Garden Expo Park, and it will soon head to the Summer Palace.

 

 

A guy walks through the Galaxy Soho complex, the location of the Beijinger 2013 Reader Bar and Club Awards.

 

 

This last photo from Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon is of Tao Xiangli, who made a humanoid robot out of second-hand scrap metal and electronic wires. Here's what else The Atlantic had to say:

 

"Tao completed his creation in less than a year, with costs of production and living expenses amounting to 300,000 yuan ($49,037). However, the robot, which measures 2.1 meters (6.9 feet) in height and 480 kg (1058 lbs) in weight, turned out to be too tall and heavy to walk out of the front door of his house. It can perform simple movements with its hands and legs and also mimic human voices."

 

Check out more of their photos here.