Porters using rope, bamboo and wooden sticks carry luggage and produce up a gangplank while passengers wait to board a ferry boat moored on a riverbank of the Yangtze River in Chongqing, January 28. Chongqing, in Sichuan Province in southwest China, is the largest city on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River with a population of 15 million under its jurisdiction of 11 districts, seven counties and three county-level cities.

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