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In this picture taken on December 13, 2017, a woman rides her bicycle in Niezhuang village, in the Baoding municipality about 150 kilometres south of Beijing.
As temperatures dipped below freezing in a northern Chinese village, a group of parka-clad women tried to stay warm as they played mahjong around a small gas stove in a grocery store. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR / To go with AFP story China-Energy-Pollution , Focus by Julien Girault (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)