Year-ender: Ordinary lives in changing Beijing

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-12-29 15:05

A wholesaler ships commodities at the Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market at 4 am in Beijing on December 26, 2014. China's consumer price index increased 2.1 percent over the last year by the end of October, 2014. For the wholesalers at the city, all they hope is that their commodities can sell at a good price. [Photo/qq.com]

Yearend is generally the time for people to look back and review main events of the past 12 months as well as their lives. As 2014 draws to a close, we choose some pictures that take a look at the lives of average people at a certain time of the day in Beijing against the background of this year's major events.