Staff members respond to customers' online questions at the headquarters of a Tmall online shop in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, Nov 5, 2013, ahead of the "Singles' Day" shopping promotion on Nov 11. [Photo/Xinhua]
A sailor from British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring tries to catch a mooring line to dock in the north side of the bund at Huangpu River in Shanghai December 10, 2013.