Nap time in China
Paramilitary policemen take a break at the site of a coal mine explosion in Yichuan county, Henan province, April 2, 2010.
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Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province Sept. 3, 2011.
The university set out mats for some 600 parents accompanying freshmen students on their first day of school, local media reported.
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A salesman, manning an exhibit of x-ray equipment, sleeps next to an image of a man with weapons attached to his body at the China International Exhibition on Police Equipment in Beijing, April 21, 2010.
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A vendor selling pork sleeps while still holding onto her knife at a market in Beijing, Sept. 7, 2012.
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A child sleeps on a couch on a flooded street in Chongqing municipality, July 20, 2010.
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A man sleeps on a life buoy next to his belongings collected from a flooded street as he waits for the flood water to withdraw near the Yangtze River in Chongqing municipality, July 25, 2012.
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A worker takes a nap surrounded by ducklings at a duck farm on the outskirts of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, April 5, 2011.
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Laborers who work nearby nap on a road as cars drive past in Chongqing Municipality, China, July 23, 2013.
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A vendor sleeps on packs of grapefruit at a market in Wuhan, Hubei province, Oct. 15, 2012.
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A young man sleeps on chairs at the backyard of his father's restaurant in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Aug. 12, 2012.
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A delegate of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) sleeps in the gallery during explanations of the draft amendment to the Criminal Procedural Law at the second plenary meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 8, 2012.
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An ethnic Uighur man takes a nap on a board as his goat, which is tied to the board, stands next to him at a demolition site in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Aug. 13, 2012.
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A man takes a nap in the back of his cycle cart at the gate of the Tayuan Diplomatic Office Building in Beijing, Oct. 27, 2012.
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A security guard sleeps next to stock trading machines at a brokerage house in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, May 15, 2012.
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A boy takes a nap on luggage as passengers are stranded at Shenyang Railway Station in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, Aug. 4, 2012.
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A vendor selling watermelons naps as he waits for customers at a market in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, July 17, 2013.
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Children sleep on the floor of the Qiaosi subway station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, July 25, 2013.
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A vendor naps beside packages of cabbage at a food market in Suining, Sichuan province, China, Dec. 11, 2009.
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A garbage collector sleeps on a couch on the edge of a hilly road in Lijiang, Yunnan province, China, Aug. 2, 2013.
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A worker naps on the railway at the construction site of Wuhan North Railway Marshalling Station in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, April 1, 2009.
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A vendor sleeps inside her store next to walls lined with mink fur at a fur market in Chongfu township, Zhejiang province, China, Sept. 13, 2013.
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A worker sleeps in the backstage area of a makeshift theater during the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival in Hong Kong, Aug. 20, 2013.
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