Several skilled craftsmen examine a nearly finished bamboo model of the "Bird's Nest," also known as the National Stadium, at a Hangzhou tourism site, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, on Sunday, February 24, 2008. This one-twentieth scale model of the "Bird's Nest" required nearly one thousand bamboo branches and about two weeks to make. [Photo: Zhejiang Daily]

(CRI February 26, 2008)