Protesters stand behind police line outside government office in central Beijing
Protesters stand behind a police line outside a government office in central Beijing October 20, 2008. Hundreds of people in Beijing argued with police outside a government office on Monday, demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme involving tree plantations to stem desertification. More than 30,000 investors, mostly retirees, sunk over a billion yuan into a company's tree-planting scheme in the arid northern region of Inner Mongolia, lured by promises of quadrupled returns within eight years. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)