Students show their colourful strings, a special decoration for the Chinese traditional Dragon Boat Festival, in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, June 2, 2008. Over 2,000 students of Fenghua Middle School in Harbin made some 3,000 colourful strings. The school plan to send these strings and letters bearing good wishes to the quake-hit areas in Sichuan prior to the Dragon Boat Festival, that falls on June 8 this year.

(Xinhua News Agency June 3, 2008)