Local citizens visit the giant bronze sculpture of the Dazheng Hall (Hall of Great Affairs) of the Shenyang-located Imperial Palace of Qing Dynasty, on its public show in Shenyang City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 6, 2009. It took 10 years for Shi Hongxiang, a local sculptor to finish this elaborate sculpture, which consists of over 40,000 bronze-engraving ornaments and accessories, in a proportion of 1:10 and a total weight of 3.8 tons. [Xinhua/Zhang Wenkui]