Tourists view lotus in Nandaihe near Qinhuangdao, a seaside tourist resort in north China's Hebei Province July 23, 2003.

Hundreds of kinds of lotus exhibited in the 17th national lotus exhibition held both in Nandaihe and Baoding, a city also in Hebei.

 The exhibition will end in September.

(People's Daily July 24, 2003)